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COURTESY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
Owen P. Harbison, of an Ala Napuaa Street address, was charged Wednesday with three counts of identity theft and second-degree theft and one count of unauthorized possession of confidential personal information in connection with golfer Robert Allenby's case.

Honolulu police have made an arrest in connection with credit cards stolen from Australian golfer Robert Allenby while he was in Honolulu for the Sony Open last month.

Owen P. Harbison, of an Ala Napuaa Street address, has been charged with three counts of identity theft and second-degree theft and one count of unauthorized possession of confidential personal information in connection with Allenby’s case.

He was arrested Wednesday at Oahu Community Correctional and is being held on $100,000 bail. Harbison, 32, will make his first court appearance next week, said Honolulu Police Department Lt. John McCarthy.

He said Harbison had used three credit cards to charge an amount below $20,000.

Police had opened investigations into second-degree robbery and fraudulent use of credit cards, but before Wednesday had only said the investigation was continuing with a focus on what were believed to be more than $20,000 in fraudulent charges on Allenby’s credit cards.

Allenby has said he has no memory of what may have happened to him during two and a half hours after he left the Amuse wine bar on Kapiolani Boulevard on the night of Jan. 16 after missing the cut at the tournment.

"From 11:06 to 1:27 a.m. I have no memory," Allenby said at a press conference on Jan. 27. "I can’t tell you how frustrating that is because we all want to know the truth and we all want to get to the bottom of it."

Allenby originally said he had been drugged, kidnapped, robbed of his credit cards, thrown into a car trunk and dumped 6.5 miles away in a park that night. That account, he said, came in part from a homeless woman who helped him get away from attackers.

The woman acknowledged helping Allenby but has denied telling him that he was thrown to the street from the trunk of a car.

Allenby said he has taken a blood test that could show what drugs were in his system. But he did not tell reporters what the drug test showed.

Chris Khamis, a homeless man, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that Allenby injured himself by passing out and hitting his head on a rock. 

Allenby said he posted a photo of his injured face on his Facebook account on Jan. 17 because he couldn’t remember his phone number after what had happened and wanted to let his family know he was OK.

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