Big Isle police evacuate homes

Big Island police evacuated several Kau homes yesterday after they found what appeared to be several grenades.

Police arrested three occupants of one home - two men, ages 53 and 22, and a woman, 50 - on suspicion of ownership of prohibited weapons or explosive devices.

Police officers from Kau, Area II Criminal Investigations Section and the Special Response Team served a search warrant at a Hawaiian Ocean View Estates subdivision home on King Kamehameha Boulevard yesterday.

Officers found what appeared to be a grenade and evacuated about 20 people from 10 homes in the immediate area.

Police shut down King Kamehameha Boulevard for several hours until 5 p.m. yesterday until the Army's Explosive Ordnance Demolition team from Schofield Barracks determined it was safe.

The American Red Cross opened a shelter for displaced residents at the Hawaiian Ocean View Estates Community Center.

HONOLULU

Suspect sought in Kalihi robbery

Police were looking for a man who allegedly hit and robbed another man in Kalihi.

Police said that about 4:20 p.m. Tuesday, the suspect approached a 42-year-old man in Kalihi and asked a question the victim didn't understand. Police said the suspect immediately started to hit the victim with an object until witnesses intervened. The suspect fled and afterward the victim realized his cell phone was missing.

The victim refused medical treatment.

WEST OAHU

Police arrest auto theft suspect

Erratic driving led to the arrest of an auto theft suspect early yesterday.

About 12:52 a.m. an officer saw a vehicle being driven erratically on Fort Weaver Road in Ewa Beach, police said. The officer checked the vehicle's license plate number and learned that the car had been reported stolen from an auto dealership in Honolulu.

Police followed the vehicle to a home and arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion of auto theft.

EAST OAHU

Man, woman hurt near blowhole

Firefighters rescued a man in his early 20s who fell about 40 feet near the Halona blowhole last night.

The man fell onto a ledge about 10:50 p.m., said Capt. Earle Kealoha. Officials are “;not sure what he was doing”; prior to the fall, but his vehicle was parked at the site.

Firefighters followed a drainage pipe leading to the shoreline to get to the victim.

He was taken to the Queen's Medical Center in serious condition. Before firefighters arrived, a female in her late teens suffered a head injury as she tried to rescue the man, Kealoha said. She was also taken to the hospital in stable condition.