Kidnapping attempt reported near school
Police are investigating a report of an attempted kidnapping of an elementary school student Tuesday morning in Kailua.
Police said a 9-year-old boy was walking to Kainalu Elementary School on Kaiholu Street at about 7:30 a.m. when two men in a white van approached him and tried to get him into the vehicle.
The student fled and told authorities.
Last year police investigated a report of an attempted kidnapping that also involved a white van.
The state Department of Education said a white van drove up to a group of students on Keaunui Drive near Keoneula Elementary School in Ewa Beach after school on Sept. 18. A male in the passenger seat asked the Keoneula students to get in the van.
The students ran away and the van drove off in the opposite direction.
Invader at large in Dole Street break-in
Police are looking for a man who allegedly broke into a Dole Street apartment, terrorizing four adults and a baby girl, police said.
Police said a man armed with a weapon barged into the dwelling at 9:30 p.m. Monday and threatened a 31-year-old man; three women, ages 56, 47 and 29; and a 5-week-old baby.
No one was injured.
The suspect fled in a car, taking only a backpack.
Police opened a first-degree robbery and first-degree burglary case.
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Witness details armed robbery of painkillers
WAILUKU » A Maui Longs Drugs pharmacist described in court how a robber pointed a gun at her while demanding oxycodone, the Maui News reported Wednesday.
Deanna Salse testified at a District Court preliminary hearing Tuesday for John Naauao Jr., who is charged with robbing the Pukalani store last week.
Salse said that after the suspect jumped through a window into the pharmacy area, he demanded employees get down on the floor. He asked where the "oxys" were, referring to the powerful prescription painkiller.
She said he took off with more than 1,000 oxycodone pills and 400 Percocet pills. The pills are valued at about $2,300.
Judge Douglas Sameshima sent the case to Circuit Court for trial.
Naauao’s public defender couldn’t immediately be reached for comment by the Associated Press on Wednesday.
