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At about 12:30 a.m., South Hilo Patrol officers responded to a hold-up alarm at a service station on Kekuanaoa Street. A male suspect brandished a gun demanding money from the employee and fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of currency. The employee did not sustain any injuries during the ordeal.

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Big Island police have located 19-year-old Kale Thomas Ramangmou, who was wanted for robbery. Ramangmou was arrested Monday morning (May 7) and charged Tuesday (May 8) for numerous offenses in connection with three separate incidents.

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In response to a 3:37 a.m. call, Puna patrol officers received a report that a 43-year-old Pāhoa man was at a 24-hour convenience store in Pāhoa at around 2 a.m. when an acquaintance parked in the area offered him a ride home. The victim accepted the ride and was driven to an area off of […]

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Big Island police are investigating a reported robbery in Hilo on Tuesday night (April 17). At about 5:39 p.m. Tuesday, South Hilo patrol officers responded to a report of a purse snatching in Downtown Hilo. They learned that an 86-year-old Hilo woman had been walking along Haili Street near a movie theater when an unknown […]

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Big Island police are renewing their request for information about a robbery at the University of HawaiÊ»i at Hilo last year. Around 8 p.m. on December 6, a 24-year-old female student was reportedly accosted by a lone male suspect, who attempted to forcibly steal items she had in her possession. The woman managed to thwart […]

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At 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, Kona patrol officers responded to a parking lot in the Hanama Place shopping area. A 43-year-old Kailua-Kona man with no permanent address reported that he had been sleeping outside a business building when he woke up to find an acquaintance forcibly removing money from his pants pocket. The victim struggled with […]

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A 39-year-old Pāhoa man reported that he was walking along Highway 130 near Pāhoa High School around 2:15 a.m. when he was accosted by five to six young men who were also walking in the area. One of them started a conversation with the victim. While the victim was distracted, the other men assaulted him […]

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Big Island police are investigating a reported robbery early Saturday morning in Kalapana. A 19-year-old man was asleep in a white sedan parked on the ocean side shoulder area of Route 137 about 200 to 300 feet north of the turnaround area. He reported that he had attended an event held at a local establishment […]

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Detectives from the Area II Criminal Investigations Section charged 22-year-old James Kekai Hao of Kailua-Kona with 11 offenses Saturday (January 21) in connection with robberies at businesses in West Hawaiʻi on January 5 and January 12.

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Big Island police have arrested a second suspect in connection with a robbery January 12 at Keauhou Store in Hōlualoa. The suspect, 22-year-old James Kekai Hao of Kailua-Kona, was also arrested for a robbery January 5 at the Kaloko Business Center V in Kailua-Kona.

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Thanks to tips from the public, Big Island police have arrested one suspect in connection with a robbery last week in Hōlualoa. On Friday (January 13), detectives from the Area II Criminal Investigations Section located and recovered a white 1998 Jeep Wrangler Sahara associated with the January 12 Keauhou Store robbery.

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Video of the Keauhou Store robbery Thursday (Jan 12) and video of possibly the same suspect in a Kaloko business robbery from January 5, 2012.

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Shortly before 1 p.m. a man described as a local male with a dark complexion entered the Keauhou Store in Holualoa and forcibly removed an undisclosed amount of money from the cash register. A 34-year-old female cashier suffered minor injuries but declined medical treatment.

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Big Island police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in a robbery the evening of January 5 at a business located within the Kaloko Business Center V on Kamanu Street in Kailua-Kona.

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