Probable cause has been found to try a 36-year-old Hilo man on six charges, including first-degree robbery, for allegedly threatening a store detective with a knife a week ago in the KTA Super Stores Puainako parking lot.

After a preliminary hearing, Hilo District Judge Jennifer Ng on Wednesday ordered Andrew Steffan Storseth to appear for arraignment and plea at 8:30 a.m. June 17 before Hilo Circuit Judge Henry Nakamoto.

Ng also reduced Storseth’s bail from $194,000 to $100,000.

In addition to robbery, Storseth is charged with first-degree terroristic threatening, methamphetamine possession, illegal possession of ammunition, being a felon in possession of ammunition and fourth- degree theft.

According to court documents filed by police, the store detective, a 31-year-old man, told off

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