POLICE BEAT
Man charged in carjacking, abduction
By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer
A 27-year-old Pearl City man has been charged in connection with Tuesday's robbery, carjacking and kidnapping in Kahala as well as a Jan. 8 home-invasion robbery in Kunia.
Christopher George Gallarde is being held in lieu of $500,000 total bail for both cases. Gallarde, a felon, was arrested at his family's residence on Kanihi Street on Friday at 1:25 p.m.
Gallarde is charged with robbery, kidnapping, burglary, auto theft and unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle.
Also charged in connection with the Kahala case are 29-year-old Daniel Blaine Collins and Trevor A. Kerr, 27.
Collins is accused of robbery and kidnapping. His bail is $250,000.
Collins is also under investigation for the Jan. 8 home-invasion robbery in which a 32-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint.
Police said Kerr was stripping a stolen Honda Civic when Specialized Services Division personnel and Crime Reduction Unit officers from Pearl City and East Honolulu came to Gallarde's residence.
Kerr was charged in the theft of the Honda, which had been reported stolen Friday in Pearl City, recovered by police and stolen again before it could be moved by the registered owner from a street near Gallarde's home. Kerr's bail is $15,000.
"There was a lot of cooperation and footwork from SSD and CRU from different districts to resolve this without anyone getting hurt, and from the prosecutor's office for getting charges," said Detective Gary Lahens, lead investigator of the Kahala case.
Reach Rod Ohira at rohira@honoluluadvertiser.com.
