Updated at 7:28 a.m., Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Police arrest 2 featured on Hawaii 'Most Wanted' show
Advertiser Staff
Big Island police have arrested two men featured on "Hawaii Island's Most Wanted."The first, 19-year-old Alexander Kaleookalani Lancaster of Pahoa, was wanted in connection with a robbery at Pohoiki Beach Dec. 22. Puna patrol officers arrested him in Pahoa Village on Friday. He was charged on Saturday with second-degree robbery. He was released after posting $1,000 bail. He is scheduled to make an initial court appearance in Puna District Court on Feb. 26.
The second man, 21-year-old James Deogracias Creekmur of Hilo, was wanted on suspicion of assault and terroristic threatening. He is suspected of running over a man with his truck in the parking lot of a Hilo bar on Dec. 20 and then punching him. He is also suspected of firing a handgun near a graduation party in Miloli'i on June 9. On Jan. 20, detectives convinced Creekmur to turn himself in. Later that day, he was released pending further investigation.
