A late-afternoon crash in Hawaiian Ocean View Estates last Friday led to a reported gunpoint robbery, police said. A woman was assaulted and her cellphone was taken. Three people, including an 8-year-old girl, were injured and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Witnesses told officers the suspects left the area in a gray pickup truck. Police canvassed the neighborhood as the investigation continued.
The trouble started around 4:15 p.m. at Aloha Boulevard and Lotus Blossom Lane, where a silver 2008 Toyota sedan was broadsided by a silver 2007 Ford SUV, according to a media release from the Hawai‘i Police Department. The Toyota was carrying a driver, a 47-year-old woman and an 8-year-old girl, all of whom were later treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Police say that after the crash, the 47-year-old passenger stepped out of the Toyota to check on the Ford's sole occupant. Before she could do much, a gray pickup pulled up. A man climbed out, physically assaulted her, pulled a small handgun and demanded her cellphone. She handed it over, and the man and the pickup's driver took off south on Lotus Blossom Lane toward Seabreeze Parkway, officials told Hawaii News Now.
Suspect descriptions and a stolen SUV
Investigators describe the Ford's driver as a local woman in her 30s with a heavy build, tan complexion, reddish-blonde dyed hair and a height of about 5-foot-4. The male suspect from the gray pickup is described as about 55 years old, roughly 5-foot-4, 160 pounds, bald and clean-shaven. The Ford SUV involved in the collision had been reported stolen in November 2025 from a home on Seabreeze Parkway, a detail that links Friday's crash to a wider stolen-vehicle investigation, according to the Hawai‘i Police Department.
How to help
Detectives are hoping nearby residents and drivers can help fill in the gaps. Anyone with information or video from around Aloha Boulevard and Lotus Blossom Lane is asked to contact Detective Donovan Kohara at (808) 960-3118 or [email protected]. Tipsters who would rather stay anonymous can call Hawai‘i Island Crime Stoppers at (808) 961-8300, and might be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000, according to reporting by Hawaii News Now.
The incident is the latest in a string of cases that have put Ocean View residents on alert. In recent months, investigators have responded to several notable calls, including a Halloween-night robbery that drew Area II detectives to Prince Kūhiō Boulevard and Highway 11. That earlier case, along with outreach surrounding this newest investigation, has prompted officers to urge neighbors to comb through doorbell camera and dashcam footage for anything that might help, according to Big Island Now.
