Updated at 5:03 p.m., Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Kalihi bank robbery is Oahu's sixth in 2008
By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer
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No weapon was seen and no one was injured.
It was O'ahu's sixth bank robbery in 2008 and the fifth of an American Savings Bank branch.
Federal prosecutors have charged three men arrested by police — Ellis Cleveland, aka Cleveland Ellis; William Avian Mara III; and Richard K. Talumi Jr. — with the five other robberies this year.
In today's 11:19 a.m. robbery at 1851 N. King St., the suspect used a demand note. He was last seen riding a bicycle east on North King Street.
Anyone with information on the robbery suspect can call Honolulu CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cell phone.
Talumi had his detention hearing today in federal court and was ordered held without bail. He was charged last week with the Jan. 11 robbery of American Savings' Waipahu branch and the Jan. 14 robbery of American Savings at Ewa Town Center.
Talumi has a Feb. 4 preliminary hearing scheduled before Magistrate Leslie E. Kobayashi.
