Man allegedly held woman against her will

A 39-year-old Kapiolani-area man was charged and held in lieu of $85,000 bail for allegedly extorting and kidnapping a 24-year-old woman.

Chad A. Castellano, of a Kalakaua Avenue address, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly trying to sexually assault a woman in an Ala Moana area parking lot. The woman reported being held against her will at 2:26 a.m. Tuesday.

Officers found and arrested the suspect at 3:50 a.m.

While he was at the police station, officers arrested Castellano for alleged extortion. The man allegedly threatened Sept. 17 to release intimate videos of the same woman on the Internet if she did not pay him $1,085, police said.

Male arsonists captured on video at blaze

Police want the public’s help finding five men seen on surveillance video cameras about 1:40 a.m. Sept. 22 at a Dumpster fire at Kalihi Kai Elementary School on Puuhale Road.

The men are suspects in five other Dumpster fires in Kalihi and Mapunapuna, each about the same time of morning, from Sept. 18 to 24, CrimeStoppers Lt. Kim Buffett said.

The other fires were: Sept. 18, 1:43 a.m., Island Demo on Kilihau Street; Sept. 20, 3:11 a.m., Floors of Hawaii on Kaumualii Street; Sept. 21, 3 a.m., Farrington High School on King Street, five different fires on campus; Sept. 22, 3:10 a.m., D and D Office, Puuhale Road; Sept. 24, 11:11 a.m., Kalakaua Middle School on Kalihi Street.

Anyone with information on the suspects is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.

In an unrelated case, a suspect was charged with setting two other Dumpsters on fire last month: one in Honolulu and one in Waianae.

Ewald Schleicher, 72, believed to be homeless, allegedly set fire to a Dumpster at Murphy’s Bar and Grill in downtown Honolulu on Aug. 14 and at a Dumpster outside the McKinney Building in Waianae on Sept. 6, Buffett said.

Police arrested Schleicher Monday afternoon in Waianae on two counts of fourth-degree arson. Police said the arrest was aided by a tip to CrimeStoppers.