STAR-ADVERTISER STAR-ADVERTISER The suspect arrested for allegedly forcing a father to jump from a moving car with his children at Nimitz Beach on Monday now faces robbery and kidnapping charges, police said.
Joshua Lopez-Keli, 36, is charged with three counts of kidnapping, second-degree robbery and unauthorized control of a moving vehicle. His bail is set at $1 million and he was also arrested on a no-bail parole warrant, the Honolulu Police Department said in a news release.
On Monday evening, around 7 p.m., a 30-year-old father saved his two young daughters when a thief drove off in their pickup truck, forcing the father and his children to jump from the moving vehicle. The father was about to leave the beach near Kalaeloa Airport when a man approached their truck and asked for a ride.
“When the father refused, the suspect pushed him to the ground, got into the truck and drove away with the children inside,” police said. The father “was able to climb into the back seat, unbuckle his children and jump with them from the moving vehicle.”
The father and both children, ages 7 and 3, were injured and treated by Honolulu Emergency Medical Services paramedics and taken to the hospital in serious condition.
Just after 9 p.m., approximately two hours after the carjacking, 8th District Crime Reduction Unit officers arrested a 36-year-old suspect at the Ka Makana Ali 'i shopping center in Kapolei. Earlier in the night, the stolen vehicle was found unoccupied in Kapolei.
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