Suspect sought in Kona purse snatching

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Hawaii Island police are searching for a 27-year-old Kealakekua man wanted for questioning in connection with a robbery.

Hawaii Island police are searching for a 27-year-old Kealakekua man wanted for questioning in connection with a robbery.

Alihilani Joshua Stringert is described as 5-foot-11, 180 pounds, with brown eyes, short brown hair and tattoos on his arms.

Shortly before 2 p.m. on Sunday, a man took a purse from a 54-year-old Captain Cook woman as she was about to enter a business establishment on the 74-5000 block of Kaiwi Street in Kailua-Kona, police said. The suspect fled in a charcoal gray Nissan Altima four-door sedan.

Investigation identified Stringert as a person of interest.