HONOLULU --
Wahiawa police on Wednesday nabbed a man who escaped arrest at the Wahiawa Police Station on Monday.
Tobias Debardeleben, 41, is in custody at the Honolulu cellblock. It is where he should have ended up earlier in the week.
Police first arrested Debardeleben on Oahu's North Shore Monday. While he was at the Wahiawa substation being fingerprinted and photographed, he somehow got out of police custody and bolted to freedom, police said.
On Wednesday morning an officer on routine patrol near Thompson's Corner stopped a man walking along the side of the Farrington Highway.
"He thought he looked like the escaped suspect and he turned around and he asked the man his name and he gave some other name," Lt. Ben Ballesteros said.
The police said that when the officer glanced back at the suspect, the man disappeared through the bushes.
The Honolulu Police Department's helicopter was up in the air at the time and was dispatched to the area to assist in the search.
The suspect initially resisted arrest, but he was quickly subdued, police said.
Debardeleben has previous convictions for burglary and domestic violence. He had just returned to Hawaii from San Quentin when he got into trouble with the law again, police said.
"Basically it was a shoplifting, and he used force in committing shoplifting, and it became a robbery," Ballesteros said.
Wahiawa officers said they are glad to have apprehended the escapee and are making doubly sure he doesn't give them the slip a second time.
HPD is conducting an internal investigation to determine exactly what went wrong.
"Right now, we are reviewing our procedures and seeing if we can make it more secure," Ballesteros said.
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