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Police seek man seen using tourist’s ATM card


Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300, or *CRIME on your cellular phone. Free cellular calls are provided by AT&T, Nextel Hawaii, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless Hawaii, Mobi PCS and Hawaiian Tel. The public may now send anonymous text and web tips. Text “CS808” plus your message to 274637 or CRIMES.

CrimeStoppers and Honolulu police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man who used the ATM card of a visitor from Japan who was found disoriented in his Waikiki hotel room.

Police said security personnel at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel checked on a hotel room Aug. 20 after hotel operators received a series of dropped calls from the room. Upon their arrival they met with a Japanese tourist who appeared disoriented.

His ATM card was used in various locations and security cameras showed an unknown male withdrawing from his account. Police opened a kidnapping investigation and released a security camera photo of the suspect.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300, or *CRIME on a cell phone. Free cellular calls are provided by AT&T, Nextel Hawaii, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless Hawaii, Mobi PCS and Hawaiian Tel.

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