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Help give Thanksgiving food, gifts to homeless
A volunteer organization that distributes food to the homeless in downtown Honolulu will dispense clothing, toiletries and food on Thanksgiving Day.Sherri Rigg, volunteer coordinator of the Kau Kau Wagon, is seeking donations and volunteers. The distribution will begin at 11 a.m. Thursday at Hotel and Bethel streets.
Call Rigg at 395-5859.
'Cop on top' raises $10,552 after 63 hours
Honolulu police Lt. Kurt Kendro has raised $10,552.31 for Hawaii Special Olympics after spending 63 1/2 hours atop Waikiki Theatre 3.Kendro came down from the roof at 9:30 p.m. Saturday after reaching his goal of $10,000. He took vacation leave to do the "cop on top" fund-raiser and was back at work today.
Tomorrow
Some events of interest
6:30 p.m., Puohale Community and Senior Center: Vision meeting. Contact: Jimmy Remedios, 523-4500.
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
4 crime-spree suspects are sought by police
Police today were searching for four young men who went on a four-hour crime spree early yesterday that included three armed robberies, a kidnapping and an auto theft.The spree began at the drive-through lane of the Jack in the Box restaurant on North School Street at about 1 a.m., where the suspects damaged one woman's car, beat another motorist and attempted to kidnap his girlfriend, and stole a car.
The incidents all occurred in a span of less than three minutes, police said.
At the Jack in the Box, they smashed the driver's-side window of a car driven by a woman, 52. The woman, however, was able to drive off.
The suspects then converged on a second vehicle. They pulled a 22-year-old man from the vehicle, beat him and tried to drive off with his girlfriend, 20, still in the car. But the man was able to pull her from the car.
The suspects then broke into the parked Subaru and drove off.
The suspects then drove to Kailua and entered a 7-Eleven store at 1247 Kailua Road at 4:10 a.m. A female clerk was threatened with a wooden baton and the suspects fled with cash, her purse and cigarettes.
At 5 a.m., they robbed a Chevron convenience store at 777 Kamehameha Highway in Pearl City.
One of the suspects, armed with a knife, demanded the clerk open the safe. When she could not, he reached over the counter, took an unknown item and fled in a waiting Subaru.
A half-hour later in Kalihi, a police officer spotted the four men in the stolen Subaru.
The men got out of the vehicle at the corner of Hiu and Kalama streets, jumped a fence and fled into a housing area, eluding the police officer.
Man in hooded jacket robs Yum Yum Tree
A man wearing a hooded blue jacket robbed the Yum Yum Tree in Ward Centre at 12:30 a.m. yesterday, police said.The manager told police the man came into his office demanding money after the restaurant had closed. The robber assaulted him and fled with items belonging to the restaurant.
A suspect was still being sought.
Pedestrian, 67, killed in Waipahu, is identified
The medical examiner's office identified Song Suk Kim as the 67-year-old pedestrian who was killed Saturday when struck by a pickup truck on Farrington Highway in Waipahu.Pedestrians have accounted for 17 of Oahu's 59 traffic fatalities this year. Fourteen of the victims were 60 years or older.
Military man injured in fall while rappelling
A 26-year-old man fell and was injured while rappelling from a bridge at Waikalani Drive in Wahiawa during a military exercise.He was transported by helicopter to Queen's Medical Center where he is listed in guarded condition.
Firefighters rescue kayaker near Ko Olina
Firefighters rescued a man last night after his kayak was swamped by a wave near Ko Olina.Darkness was setting in and the waves were coming up when the man ran into trouble. The Honolulu Fire Department's helicopter picked the man up by lowering a basket. He was 500 to 600 yards offshore.
