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POSTED: Wednesday, December 10, 2008

HONOLULU

Police seek 4 in Manoa robbery

Police are looking for four males who allegedly robbed a teenager at gunpoint in Manoa on Monday night.

Authorities said that at about 7 p.m. a 15-year-old boy was walking along Lowrey Avenue near the University of Hawaii Manoa Faculty Housing when a dark-colored sport utility vehicle pulled up in front of him.

Police said the front-seat passenger got out of the SUV while a passenger in the back seat brandished a handgun. Police said the suspects took the boy's backpack and fled. The boy told police there were four males in the SUV.

Police did not provide a description of the suspects.

UH Campus Security urges anyone with information to call police at 911 or the UH-Manoa Campus Security at 956-6911.

LEEWARD OAHU

Man arrested in Waianae attack

Police arrested a 44-year-old man yesterday who allegedly punched his 29-year-old ex-girlfriend at a Waianae area park.

The man allegedly punched the woman in the face and head, knocking her to the ground at about 11 p.m. Nov. 23.

The woman, bleeding profusely, was able to make her way back to her family home, police said.

The woman told a family member that her ex-boyfriend had beaten her and then she lost consciousness, police said.

Police located and arrested the man yesterday for second-degree assault.

Man faces choking, gun-firing charges

Police arrested a 31-year-old Waianae man after he allegedly choked a woman and fired a gun.

The suspect and the 33-year-old victim were having a domestic argument at their home on Alamihi Street about 7 p.m. Monday, police said.

The woman tried to leave, but the suspect allegedly choked her.

The woman escaped and drove to a nearby residence on Puhawai Road, police said. The suspect followed in his vehicle and when he arrived he fired two shots into the ground, police said.

Officers arrested the suspect on suspicion of abuse, a firearm violation, first-degree reckless endangering and second-degree terroristic threatening.

  A handgun was recovered, police said. The woman refused medical treatment, police said.

CENTRAL OAHU

Baby's bruises spur assault case

Police are investigating a possible assault on a 5-month-old girl earlier this week.

On Monday, the mother dropped the infant off at Wahiawa General Hospital, reporting no injuries. However the child was found with bruising to her forehead, which police have called “;suspicious.”;

Police opened a second-degree assault case. No suspect has been identified. Police believe the alleged assault occurred sometime between 5:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Monday.

WAIKIKI

2 teens arrested after confrontation

Police arrested an 18-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy following a confrontation involving a knife and a BB gun in Waikiki.

Police said a 19-year-old woman was hanging out with friends at about 11:50 p.m. Monday when an argument began. During the argument the man allegedly threatened her with a knife.

The woman's friends tried to intervene and one of them, the 15-year-old boy, pulled out what appeared to be a handgun and pointed it at the man, police said.

Police later identified the gun as a BB gun.

Police arrested the boy, whom they classified as a runaway, on suspicion of second-degree terroristic threatening and use of a replica gun.

Police arrested the man, who has no local address, for investigation of first-degree terroristic threatening and possession of drugs after police found he had a glass pipe with residue that resembled methamphetamine.

NEIGHBOR ISLANDS

Single-car crash kills man on Maui

A man died in a fiery single-car crash in Lahaina, Maui early today, according to Maui County police.

Shortly before 12:26 a.m., a car was traveling north on Honoapiilani Highway near Halelo Street when it went off onto the right shoulder and crashed into a concrete pillar of a golf cart crossing bridge, police said.

The vehicle then caught fire and was engulfed in flames when officers arrived, police said.

The driver, who was the only person in the car, was burned beyond recognition, police said. Identification will be made through medical records.

It is unknown whether the driver was wearing a seat belt or if the airbags deployed, police said.

This is Maui County's 22nd traffic fatality this year, compared with 20 at this time last year.

Coast Guard seeks missing scuba diver

The Coast Guard continued searching today for a 69-year-old diver who disappeared five miles west of Maui.

Tam Sing was one of four people diving from a commercial fishing boat when he disappeared about 1 p.m. yesterday.

The Coast Guard searched the channel between Lahaina and Lanai with crews on a rescue helicopter from Barbers Point on Oahu, a small boat from Coast Guard Station Maui, and the cutter Ahi. Maui Fire Department personnel also searched the area.

Sing was wearing a black wetsuit and scuba gear.

Maui police contacted the Coast Guard, which had personnel at the scene at 2:40 p.m.

Anyone with information on the missing man's whereabouts is asked to call Coast Guard Sector Honolulu at (808) 842-2600.

Crews check store after evacuation

The Hilo Downtown Sack N Save evacuated customers and employees at 3:06 p.m. yesterday when the store manager noticed a white cloud and an unusual odor near the chest freezer, Big Island Fire Department reported.

The Fire Department said the cause was possibly an electrical component failure.

Fire personnel wearing self-contained breathing apparatus searched the entire store for potential victims, but found none.

Hazardous-materials technicians monitored oxygen and carbon monoxide levels as the store was ventilated with smoke ejectors, the fire department said.

The Fire Department said no injuries or exposures to harmful materials was found.

The store was isolated and entry was denied for about two hours, until an all-clear was given, fire officials said.

The last firefighters left the scene at 6:10 p.m.