{"id":35166,"date":"2024-04-15T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/?p=35166"},"modified":"2024-04-15T13:08:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:08:21","slug":"kailua-kona-man-arrested-and-charged-in-kona-robbery-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/kailua-kona-man-arrested-and-charged-in-kona-robbery-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kailua-Kona Man Arrested and Charged in Kona Robbery Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Melling.jpg?fit=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Melling.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Melling.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Melling.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Melling.jpg?resize=585%2C731&amp;ssl=1 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Kona patrol officers located and arrested 21-year-old Peter Melling of Kailua-Kona early Friday morning, April 12, 2024. Melling was wanted for a Robbery that occurred at a shopping center located at the 75-5800 block of Ali\u2018i Drive in Kailua-Kona on Thursday morning, April 11, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of their continued investigation, Detectives with the Area II Criminal Investigation Section (CIS)&nbsp; arrested Melling for the following offenses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One count of Robbery, Second Degree<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One count of Assault, Third Degree<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After conferral with the County Prosecutor, Melling was charged with the above-mentioned offenses and his bail was set at $22,000.00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melling was released on April 13, 2024 after posting bail, with an initial court appearance scheduled for May 9, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. at Kona District Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police ask anyone with additional information about this case to contact Detective Len Hamakado at (808) 326-4646, ext. 224, or via email at <a href=\"mailto:Len.hamakado@hawaiicounty.gov\">Len.hamakado@hawaiicounty.gov<\/a>, or to call the police department\u2019s non-emergency line at (808) 935-3311.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kona patrol officers located and arrested 21-year-old Peter Melling of Kailua-Kona early Friday morning,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[616],"tags":[644,198],"class_list":["post-35166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-assault","tag-robbery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Melling.jpg?fit=800%2C1000&ssl=1","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35168,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35166\/revisions\/35168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}