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The Honolulu Advertiser
Updated at 1:27 p.m., Friday, December 19, 2008

Big Isle man charged in 2 cases after false call to police

Advertiser Staff

KEALAKEHE, Hawaii — A 45-year-old Ocean View man arrested on suspicion of making a false report to police was subsequently charged in two unrelated cases that occurred at the Kings Shops in Waikoloa.

Phillip Luceano Colleoni was arrested Wednesday for calling in a report of a man with a gun. Police were unable to locate anyone fitting the description provided by the caller, and while investigating the source of the call, officers realized it would have been impossible to view the gunman from the caller's location.

Colleoni, who at first gave a phony name to police, was arrested for making a false report to law enforcement. Police also determined he is suspected of breaking a glass showcase at a jewelry store in the Kings Shops in November.

Damage in that case was estimated at $400.

Colleoni also is suspected in a Dec. 11 bomb threat to a store at the same shopping center.

He was additionally charged with fourth-degree criminal property damage and second-degree terroristic threatening, and was being held in lieu of $4,000 bail while awaiting a court hearing.