Vice seizure results in arrest
Honolulu vice officers seized 16 alleged gambling devices along with an undisclosed amount of cash and arrested a woman Thursday after conducting a search at 1717 N. King St. in Kalihi.
The 21-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of several charges, including promotion of gambling, possession of a prohibited gambling device and two warrants totaling $3,250 bail after officers executed a search warrant. She was released pending investigation.
Burglary suspect charged
Authorities on Thursday charged a 35-year-old burglary suspect, who was shot multiple times by police, with several offenses.
Police arrested Amery Kahale-Sugimura on Tuesday on suspicion of five counts of first-degree attempted murder, two counts of auto theft, one count of first-degree burglary and four counts of criminal property damage after he allegedly drove a stolen pickup truck toward police officers and assaulted a resident at his Aiea home.
But prosecutors did not charge him with attempted murder. Kahale-Sugimura was charged with two counts of auto theft, first-degree burglary, first-degree unauthorized entry into a dwelling and drug offenses.
His bail was set at $250,000.
Kahale-Sugimura remains hospitalized.
On Tuesday, officers spotted the 35-year-old burglary suspect at an Aiea home. He fled on a stolen motorcycle, crashed it at Alvah Scott Elementary School, fled to a nearby home, assaulted the resident and attempted to flee in the resident’s pickup truck. He allegedly reversed the truck, accelerating into two officers, but no one was seriously injured. The officers and the resident were treated at the scene.
Scam targets debit card users
Hawaii County police are warning the public about a debit card scam.
Hawaii island residents have reported receiving a text message from someone claiming that the recipients’ debit cards have been temporarily deactivated and asking them to call a phone number to reactivate their cards.
When the recipients call, they are asked for the card number, expiration date, security code and personal identification number. This is a scam by someone trying to fraudulently obtain personal information for illicit purposes, police said.
Those who receive such messages are advised to delete them and not to call the phone number provided. Legitimate financial institutions do not ask for that kind of personal information over the phone or Internet. If a notification from a financial institution appears to be legitimate, call the published phone number in the phone book, not a number you receive on the phone or over the Internet.
