Police said he left home at about 2:30 p.m. and shot his wife's van, parked in front of the house, eight times with a semiautomatic pistol.

He was arrested on suspicion of first-degree reckless endangering. The firearm was recovered.

Woman hurt in fight over money

A woman escaped with minor injuries after a confrontation with a former friend who threatened her with a knife and tried to force her to withdraw money from a bank yesterday, police said.

They said the assailant punched the woman in the face after she refused to help pay for traffic tickets, demanded money and held a knife to her throat.

The woman was forced to drive to a credit union in Kailua to withdraw money, but escaped and called police, they said.

Her 1990 four-door orange and white Toyota sedan, license FRD-305, also was stolen.

The woman was taken to the Castle Medical Center, where she was treated and released.

Husband cut by kitchen knife

Police have arrested a 53-year-old woman after she allegedly cut her husband with a 10-inch kitchen knife during a domestic argument Sunday in Waikiki.

At 11:20 p.m. on the 2900 block of Kalakaua Avenue, police said, the woman began waving a knife while telling her husband to stay away from her. The blade scratched the husband numerous times on his stomach.

She was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault yesterday, police said.

Domestic dispute turns violent

A domestic dispute sparked a violent chain of events involving smashed car windows and a near traffic accident yesterday in Kaka'ako.

Police said a 28-year-old wom-an and 34-year-old man, parents of two children, began arguing.

The man broke the woman's car window, prompting the wom an to break his car window. A witness told police the man also tried to run over the woman with his truck.

The woman was treated at Queen's Medical Center for a cut arm and later told authorities she had stood in front of the truck on purpose to aggravate the man. She declined to prosecute for the damaged vehicle.