Suspect charged in Portlock home robbery
Prosecutors have charged one of two suspects in a home robbery in Portlock earlier this month.
Wednesday afternoon, officers arrested a 20-year-old man in Kalihi Valley. Shawn I. Shelton Jr., 20, was charged Thursday afternoon with kidnapping, two counts of first-degree burglary, resisting an order to stop, resisting arrest and four probation violations. He remained at the main police station in lieu of $75,000 bail.
Two men surprised 13-year-old Ryan Johnson, who was sleeping in his Poipu Drive home at 10 a.m. Aug. 7. He shares the home with his father, Robert, and 17-year-old sister, A.J.
The suspects used a crowbar to pry loose a safe bolted to the wall that contained jewelry and other items belonging to Robert Johnson’s late wife, Ulrike “Bieni” Kohler Johnson. Among the items taken was the 1.2-carat solitary diamond ring with a gold band he had given his wife on their wedding day, Johnson said.