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Police are investigating the attempted kidnapping of a 10-year-old boy in Ewa Beach Tuesday morning while he was walking to school.
Police said a male suspect tried to coax the boy into his vehicle at 7 a.m. The Department of Education said a student at Keoneula Elementary School reported an attempted abduction but could not reveal the age or gender of the child.
The school sent a letter home to parents and guardians on Tuesday that said the student was walking to school on Kaipalaoa Street when a male in a black truck pulled up alongside the student and told him to get into his truck. The male suspect then grabbed the student and tried to pull him into the truck, the vice principal wrote.
The student managed to get away and reported the incident to the school staff and to his parents, and police were notified.
Volcano man, burned in house fire, dies
Kris Anderson, 64, who sustained critical injuries in a fire at his Volcano area home on Hawaii island, died Thursday.
At about 6:10 p.m. Sept. 9, police said his children were playing with matches while underneath his residence — an elevated structure on Nahelenani Street — when the home caught fire.
Anderson sustained injuries when he re-entered the home to check whether any of the children were inside. Police said he was flown in critical condition to the Straub Burn Center on Oahu, where he died Thursday.
The children were uninjured. Police said the cause of the fire was deemed accidental.
Tourist, 27, drowns at Kaimana Beach
A 27-year-old visitor drowned Tuesday night in waters off of Kaimana Beach in Waikiki.
Positive identification is pending.
At about 6:40 p.m., Emergency Medical Services and the Honolulu Fire Department responded to a report of an unresponsive snorkeler floating in the water at Kaimana Beach, also known as Sans Souci Beach.
Second man arrested in Waianae robbery
Police arrested a second suspect in connection with a home invasion robbery in Waianae.
Kaylen L. Stafford was arrested in the Nuuanu area shortly before 2:30 a.m. Wednesday on suspicion of first-degree robbery and two counts of criminal contempt of court.
A bench warrant was issued for Stafford after an Oahu grand jury indicted him and another man, Jonah Iona, on robbery charges. The crime occurred on Sept. 1.
Stafford’s bail is set at $300,000. Police arrested Iona, 20, on Sept. 3.
Man charged in threat to 3 with fake gun
An Oahu grand jury charged a 23-year-old man with threatening three people with a simulated firearm.
Jarrin K. Young was charged with three counts of first-degree terroristic threatening. His bail is set at $100,000.
The threats against a female and two males occurred on July 4 in Honolulu. A bench warrant was issued on July 25 after a grand jury indictment.
Police located and arrested Young on Monday, the same day his trial was scheduled to be held in Circuit Court in a 2016 robbery. He has a record of criminal property damage.
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