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Man charged after allegedly leaving an explosive device in Maui bank robbery attempt
POSTED: 04:07 p.m. HST, Jan 04, 2011
LAST UPDATED: 04:29 p.m. HST, Jan 04, 2011
Maui police have arrested a man who failed to rob a bank in Kahului but left behind a small explosive device.
Lt. Wayne Ibarra said today that 45-year-old Renaldo Villa had been arrested Monday and charged with robbery in the first degree and terroristic threatening in the first degree.
Villa is alleged to have entered a First Hawaiian Bank branch last week and handed a teller a note demanding that money be put in a bag.
Authorities say he didn't get any, but he left behind a package and said something about blowing up the bank.
Ibarra said the device included a small amount of explosive akin to that in a bottle rocket.
A U.S. Army bomb squad later defused it.
Villa is being held in lieu of $25,000 bail.
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