KAILUA-KONA — Hawaii Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating two men in connection with a home invasion and robbery that occurred Tuesday morning in Puna.
KAILUA-KONA — Hawaii Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating two men in connection with a home invasion and robbery that occurred Tuesday morning in Puna.
Hawaii Police Department detectives are looking for brothers, 30-year-old Wesley K. Brooks and 33-year-old Kalei K. Brooks. They have no known permanent address but are known to frequent Puna, the Ainaloa subdivision in particular.
Police cautioned that both men should be considered armed and dangerous.
Police officers responded around 4 a.m. Tuesday to a residence in the Orchidland Estates subdivision to learn that two masked men, each brandishing a firearm, had broken into the home and confronted the couple as they were asleep.
According to police, one of the men demanded they open a safe, which was in another room of the residence. After the safe was opened, the suspects took the 10 firearms and U.S. currency from within and fled the scene in the victims’ white 2012 Toyota Tundra bearing Hawaii license plates ZEN-009. The truck may have damage to its front and roof resulting from the suspects striking the garage door and front gate to the home as they left.
The suspects were described as sounding local and being between 5 feet, 5 inches and 5 feet, 8 inches tall. One was about 150 pounds and the other about 225 pounds. They were last seen wearing black coats, dark pants and hats.
Neither victim suffered any physical injuries during the incident.
Among the firearms taken were several semi-automatic pistols, shotguns, high-powered rifles and a 7 mm rifle. Also taken was approximately 4,000 rounds of live ammunition for the firearms.
The investigation is being conducted by detectives assigned to the department’s Criminal Investigation Section. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Detective BJ Sagon at 961-2375 or the department’s nonemergency number at 935-3311.
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Christ,i hope the cops catch these criminal scum…..home invaders should be caught and executed..then thrown into the sea ,get them off Hawaiian lands……….I wish the homeowner would have shot these bastards
Hmmm, what does “sounding local” mean? They knew they were from Puna because they were coughing a lot from the bad air? Maybe they had one of those horrible frogs in their truck? Or perhaps they just sounded stupid, like an apparently well-known pair of criminals that committed a home invasion and allowed their truck’s license plates to be seen, never mind running into stuff on the way out, that would sound local indeed.
Lots of guns, which is fine, defense against home invasions depends on having readily accessible guns in various parts of the residence. It was so bad where I was living on the mainland, I even kept a gun in a bathroom drawer, in case . . . well. Having them all in a safe doesn’t really do the job.
Perhaps their coughing was from all the “Ice” they have put in their bodies?
Yeah, and probably running into the victim’s garage and fence had something to do with the Swiss cheese sized holes in their brains as well.
More bad guys with guns not stopped by a ‘good’ guy with guns. Thanks to the NRA Terror Inc.
They were asleep and unarmed, moron.
The ‘unarmed victims’ accumulated a large amount of deadly weapons irresponsibly to the community in their house. And are therefore partially responsible for their possible future use against others. That a NRA terror promoter like you sees this differently is no surprise.