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POSTED: Thursday, December 18, 2008

LEEWARD OAHU

Woman allegedly stole from father

Police arrested a 39-year-old woman who was allegedly stealing money from her elderly father.

Last month an 82-year-old man discovered four unauthorized withdrawals from his debit card account.

Officers watched surveillance footage from a Pearl City bank, which showed the man's daughter making those withdrawals on Nov. 11 and 12, police said.

The woman was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of fraudulent use of a credit card, unauthorized control over personal identification and second-degree theft.

HONOLULU

Roommates' fight results in 1 arrest

Police arrested a 50-year-old Makiki man who allegedly assaulted and threatened a 56-year-old woman with a crossbow and assaulted a man, 55, with a nunchaku stick.

The man, who shares a Makiki apartment with the victims, came home at 3:56 a.m. yesterday upset with the woman. He allegedly pushed her to the ground, stood over her and allegedly threatened her with a crossbow, police said.

The 55-year-old man awoke because of the noise.

The suspect dropped the crossbow, and the woman picked it up and hid it, police said.

  The suspect then allegedly hit the man with a nunchaku stick, causing minor injury to his left side.

  They were still arguing when police arrived.

Police arrested the suspect for investigation of first-degree terroristic threatening, assault of a family or household member, two counts of use of a deadly weapon and second-degree assault and drug offenses.

WINDWARD OAHU

Fire forces 7 out of Kailua house

Fire heavily damaged a home in Kailua on Tuesday night and displaced seven people.

Thirty-five firefighters battled the fire at 235 Kihapai St., which was reported at 8:58 p.m., according to Honolulu Fire Department spokesman Capt. Terry Seelig. Smoke and flames were visible from the back of the single-story wooden house when the first firefighters arrived, he said.

Seelig said the blaze, which destroyed more than half of the home, was under control by 9:15 p.m. and extinguished by 9:44 p.m.

The fire caused about $250,000 in damage. Its cause is still under investigation. The American Red Cross was helping the residents.

Homemade bomb injures student, 17

Police are looking for a suspect who allegedly threw a homemade explosive device that injured a student at Kahuku High School at 9:45 a.m. yesterday.

It was the second time in two days that someone filled a 1-liter plastic bottle with a substance that caused it to rupture and explode. Police said that after the bottle exploded, a 17-year-old boy complained of ringing in his ears and was hospitalized.

A similar incident occurred Tuesday at the same time and school. But no one was injured and nothing was damaged in that case, police said.

WAIKIKI

Teenager arrested in store robbery

Police arrested a 15-year-old boy who allegedly robbed a Waikiki store last night.

Police said that at about 7:30 p.m., the suspect took items without paying from a 49-year-old man's store.

Police said the store owner tried to stop the boy, who struggled with the man and then fled.

Police found the boy nearby and arrested him on suspicion of second-degree robbery.