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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Thursday, May 22, 2008

Three men charged with Aiea Cue ATM robbery

Advertiser Staff

Three men, including one already facing second-degree murder charges, were charged yesterday with first-degree robbery and kidnapping for an ATM robbery.

The grand jury indictment charges Patrick Deguair, Ju Young Woo and David Teo — all facing multiple felony charges in other cases — with armed robbery at Aiea Cue on April 3.

Deguair has been held at the O'ahu Community Correctional Center on $1 million bail since mid-April for allegedly shooting a man whose body was found below a cliff at Keawa'ula Bay on the Wai'anae Coast.

Deguair had pleaded not guilty in the execution-style murder of Michael Duckworth, whose body was found by a tourist on March 27. His murder trial is scheduled to start June 16.

The arrests and charges came after Honolulu police organized a task force to investigate a surge in thefts from freestanding automated teller machines.

At 2:15 a.m. on April 3, three men with crowbars barged into the second-floor Aiea Cue pool hall, ordered four employees to lie face down, and used a blowtorch to break into an ATM and change machine. The suspects fled with $1,000 in coins and $175 cash taken from the cash register, an undisclosed amount from the ATM and change machine, a laptop computer, a PlayStation video game player and games and an iPod.

Woo, 33, was charged April 9 with the Aiea Cue holdup and has been held at OCCC in lieu of $750,000 bail. Yesterday was the first time Deguair and Teo were charged in that case.