Fourth boy charged in Kalihi corner store robberies
COURTESY CRIMESTOPPERS
A frame taken from Y-7 Liquor & Grocery’s surveillance video Monday shows owner Ok Cha Kim being placed in a chokehold. She sustained head injuries from the incident. The store was robbed twice in one week. By Tuesday night, two teenage boys had turned themselves in to police.
COURTESY CRIME STOPPERS
Honolulu Police and Crime Stoppers released security camera images of three suspects in the robbery of a convenience store on Gulick Avenue in Kalihi on Monday.
Four teenagers have been charged in separate robberies of a Kalihi convenience store within a week.
A 17-year-old boy was charged today with first-degree robbery for a robbery that occurred May 13 at the Y-7 Liquor & Grocery store on Gulick Avenue. Another 17-year-old boy has already been charged with first-degree robbery in the case.
Also today, a juvenile boy was charged with second-degree robbery in connection with Monday’s robbery, where a suspect held a 76-year-old woman co-owner in a chokehold. Authorities did not release an age for the suspect. A 15-year-old boy, whom police said put the chokehold on the woman, has already been charged with first-degree robbery in the case.
All four boys’ cases have been turned over to Family Court, which will handle the cases behind closed doors because the suspects are juveniles.
Monday’s robbery caused an uproar on social media after a surveillance video was posted showing the 76-year-old Ok Cha Kim being held in a chokehold while the Monday robbery was taking place and the cash register was looted. A third suspect in this case has not yet been arrested.
Kim was back at work on Wednesday.
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On May 13, three masked suspects entered the grocery store and approached 74-year-old Yong Son Kim, Kim’s husband and the store’s co-owner, armed with a knife and a stick, and demanded money. The third suspect is still at large.
Prosecutors can file a petition with Family Court to have the juveniles tried as adults. The maximum penalty for any juvenile offense is imprisonment in the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility until they are 19 years-old. However, the decisions of the Family Court are confidential.
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“The age of the boy was not released by the prosecutor’s office because he is a juvenile.” They already said one was 15 and the other 17. What’s the difference?
These two Samoans will be released back into the community quickly hon. Their career here will continue.
Talk about prejudicial assumptions. You know for a fact they are of Samoan ancestry?
that is what Samoans are saying hon
Racist effete simp. Do you know for a fact they were that specific Polynesian. Also are you a soothsayer of the entire judicial system? Please go back under your bridge practicing the worlds oldest profession….
Looks like HE fooled you and Butinski as well. Do you all not know that “Allie” is a guy?
I heard he was a fafa….
Please just go away.
Not so fast allie. Tried as adults they will do hard time behind bars. Finding out real fast what it means to be “Fresh Meat” in prison. Expect each one of them to become a “Bubba’s Boy” to learn the ropes of prison, how to fit in, what is expected of them.
They will need this protection as in the grand scheme of prison status, beating up elderly women rates just above being c h i l d abusers. Meaning the could receive “Prison Justice” from the inmates.
Be afraid of prison boys. Be very afraid. Never bend over to pick up soap dropped in the shower. Soap on a rope is your friend.
Maybe but the courts do not plan to try them as adults
Yeh,and they say 3rd boy arrested but if you go further into the story they say that police is still looking for the 3rd suspect.Must be a misprint there.
For some developing stories, they’ll start with, say, a “Child Missing” article. Later on, they’ll edit the same article and headline to say “Search Continues for Missing Child.” Finally, they might re-edit again to have it say “Missing Child Found.” Along the way they might forget to change a detail or two, and that’s how these weird “misprints” happen.
It’s known as “lack of editor”.
“The maximum penalty for any juvenile offense is imprisonment in the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility until they are 19 years old” – So if a kid intends to commit a crime, he should wait until he is a few months short of his 19th birthday. It’s a good thing most of these criminal types can’t read.
i’m thinking if they are 18 yrs old, they would be charged as adults.
Family Court should waive jurisdiction and have them all charged as adults. Better to lock them up now and send them to OCCC when they turn 18 or 19 rather then have them come out at 19 bigger and meaner
wE NEED TO REMEMBER THE LONGER TERM FIX ESP FOR THE boys …DO NOT CODDLE …these are all the politically correct solutions ..time for a change
They are in Polynesia.
Hopefully the judge will keep all of them in detention and not release them as their being let back into the community jeopardizes public safety….
Adult crime adult court
Thanks “entrkn”. My thoughts too. The unfortunate thing is that these Somoans will be back on the street in no time and probably kill someone next time around. There are a lot of bad apples in their community.
Hopefully, they are of Somoan ancestry and not Samoan.
Thanks “roughrider” but the misspelling was intentional.
Sad thing is the youth disrespect their elders nowadays. I remember when they would rather go to prison than to face the wrath of the Chief and the probable banishment back to the home islands.
agree
I am surprised–although I know I should not be–by the bigotted comments some people have made, essentially painting all Samoans with the crime. I have known many wonderful, outstanding members of every ethnic group here–and, of course, some pilau ones. This would be a better world if we saw each other as members of the human race rather than as separate–and lesser–ones.
That’s the way bigotry works: “people criticizing my group are merely ignorant while my views on others are based on years of experience and careful observation.” A bigot can be someone of any race, sexual orientation or shoe size – it’s just that one or more of these characteristics must be inferior in someone else. Then, there’s the blame.
Amen.
who give a rats @ss what race they are.
these bullies should be hung by the balls for attacking an elderly lady.
their names should be made public so their family can ashamed w/them.
Correct. However, the names of the individuals involved are known to the community, as the families are receiving death threats.
Right on, shawnchun. Stop with the race comments and focus on the individuals who did the crime. Enough with the coddling.
I agree, and how’s about holding the parents accountable as well? People know who they are. It will be all over social media in time.
Absolutely.
AHs
Is “boy” really an appropriate word in the headline? I can think of at least a few adjectives that would be better suited to these low life Somoans.
All these suspected idiots should be charged as adults and PUH-LEEZ don’t you liberal reformers tell me that it was just an honest mistake and these suspects, if found guilty, should not be chg. as adults and mixed with the regular inmate population…please don’t give me the old whimpering cry that these are good kids and they just made a little mistake etc…..these PUNKS knew exactly what they were doing and therefore should be charged as adults….nothing more and nothing less.
I agree. Show them the same mercy they showed to the grandma they put in the chokehold and the grandpa they pointed a gun at. NONE.
If these perps are from the projects evict them and their families. If they are hear illegally deport them You leave them here Obama and Hillary would set them free.
Yup, you’re an uneducated simp
co ntinent? The mainland you mean. And send the H’s back to Tahiti where they are from.
Allie go back to the worlds oldest profession and whatever else you do under the bridge or just cut off the middleman and participate in the sex trade that your tribe has implicitly endorsed….
Tahiti already has enough beautiful people. Can you imagine how the rest of the world will be shamed if Hawaiians lived there too? Those hapa kids will be stunning.
What about assault charge against the idiot kid who choked that poor lady? Law should be changed that the names of juveniles should be made public and also that they should remain incarcerated beyond age 19. If names of juveniles cannot be released, then what names of their parents who are adults?
“choke hold” = aggravated assault and battery at the very least? He choked an old lady out cold and could have very easily broken her frail neck. Attempted murder is a better fit imho.
“Prosecutors can file a petition with Family Court to have the juveniles tried as adults.” – I hope that they do this.
Kaneshiro is weak. Judges are too lenient. Expect a slap on the wrist for these p u n k s.
yup
I would like to see the schools having a mandatory tour of the correctional institutions to see what’s it;s like and have the young prisoners give a talk. So often the movies and rap singers give a different version of crime.
They’d be bummed out when they discovered that the facilities were better than what they have in their schools. It would be nice for them to feel what A/C feels like during the heat of the day though.
Could be the prison accommodations are better than what they’re used to at home too.
“A 15-year-old boy, whom police said put the chokehold on the woman, has already been charged with first-degree robbery in the case.”> >> ALL I want to hear is WHAT charges are being filed against the PARENTS of this kid, who ALLOWED him to be out at 3 a.m. in the morning. Accountability? Remember that?
“Prosecutors can file a petition with Family Court to have the juveniles tried as adults.”
They better. Most of these punks are 17, if they drag out the proceedings, they might only serve days at Koolau. The heinousness of their crime demands that they be tried as adults. Don’t be surprised if they were banking on a Family Court trial if they were caught.
Our judges will give these boys a stern scolding and 90-days probation…followed by a hug since they were never hugged as a child.