A lesson in redemption: Why a business owner hired the man who stole from him Forgiveness and Redemption: Business owner hires homeless man who stole from him By Allyson Blair | February 10, 2021 at 5:48 PM HST - Updated February 11 at 11:15 AM HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - It’s a story that began with a bad decision. Two of them, actually. “I was just having some problems,” said Travis Sueyoshi. “I ended up taking some stuff.” Surveillance video captured the 33-year-old stealing from a construction site on Koaki Street in Waipahu — and it wasn’t the first time. He hit the same spot twice last month and got away with an estimated $10,000 worth of tools.