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Arrest made in knife threats

A 23-year-old man was charged yesterday with three counts of first-degree terroristic threatening after another man said he was threatened by a man with knives.

Marvin Cadiz was being held in a police cellblock last night on $30,000 bail. He was arrested Thursday morning in Mililani after a 25-year-old man said he was threatened three times by a knife-welding man.

Police were called to a home on Kipapa Drive at 2:35 a.m. after a man said he was drinking and arguing with another man, identified by police as Cadiz. The victim told police that the man fled on foot after threatening him with three different knives.

Police later located the man and arrested him.

In hot pursuit of purse bandit

A woman working in a Waikiki gallery Thursday caught a man allegedly trying to steal employees' purses from a storage closet and then she helped in the pursuit that ended in his arrest.

The woman works at Diamond Head Gallery, 2301 Kalakaua Ave., police said.

The victim told police that at 3:30 p.m. she opened a closet where personal belongings were stored and found the 38-year-old suspect inside, holding a plastic bag.

The woman saw that her purse was missing from the shelf and demanded that the man turn over the plastic bag, police said.

The suspect fled to the street, the victim chasing him. When she caught him and struggled to reclaim her purse, he allegedly punched her and fled.

Joined by bystanders, the woman continued the chase, police said. After he was caught a second time, police said, he managed to escape and later was caught in a storage room at a nearby hotel.

Maui brushfire extinguished

Maui firefighters battled for an hour early yesterday to extinguish a brushfire that broke out just after midnight in Pa'ia.

The alarm sounded at 12:04 a.m., calling engines to an area just off Baldwin Avenue, officials said. The cause of the blaze, which burned about four acres, remained under investigation.