Police arrested a Waikiki man today on suspicion of attempted murder of his girlfriend, 42, after an argument ended in a stabbing.

The couple argued in their Kahakai Drive apartment, and the 51-year-old man left, police said.

He returned an hour later, and when the woman refused to let him in, he broke a window and stabbed her several times in the chest and neck, police said. The man was arrested at the scene.

Store foils shoplifting try

A 33-year-old Waipahu man was caught shoplifting both a CD player and the backpack he hid it in just before 5 p.m. Saturday at Macy's Ala Moana.

He was seen taking the pack from a display and then walking to electronics, where he placed a CD player in the pack and left the store.

Pair bound in home robbery

Two men were tied up in an Ala Wai Boulevard apartment robbery this morning that apparently involved the girlfriend of one of the men acting as an accomplice.

One victim was asleep at about 12:30 a.m. when someone knocked at the door. His girlfriend answered and was talking to a woman when two men entered and bound the victim.

They then tied up a roommate's boyfriend and took items from the apartment and fled with the girlfriend.

Driver arrested in car theft

A police officer leaving the Kalihi station yesterday spotted a car bearing fake paper license plates and arrested its driver for car theft.

The officer noted that the plates were of the type issued to new cars but were dated for April, beyond the dates issued by auto dealers. He stopped the car and checked its identity number and learned that it had been stolen Dec. 30.

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Baby critically hurt in shaking

A 21-year-old man was arrested last night at Kaiser Moanalua Medical Center in connection with a shaken-baby case that began when police were called to Wahiawa General Hospital.

The baby remains at Kaiser today and is listed in critical condition.

Police reporting to Wahiawa General last night alerted Kalihi district patrol officers that the baby had been transferred to Kaiser, where the arrest was made at 10:43 p.m. Detectives suspect that the assault occurred sometime yesterday afternoon.

Women unhurt in shooting

A 28-year-old man is being sought in a shooting early yesterday that targeted two women in Ma'ili who were uninjured.

Police have classified the case, reported at 1 a.m., as an attempted murder. The women, ages 22 and 23, were sitting on the roadside on Manu'ula'ula Street, waiting for a friend.

The man rode past them on his bike and then turned at the intersection, about 75 feet away, and fired eight rounds at the women.

Police seek 2 in robberies

Two men are being sought in connection with a series of robberies in Leeward O'ahu early yesterday.

In the first incident, at 4 a.m., a man stopped a man who had just withdrawn money from the Bank of Hawaii ATM in Waipahu. He pointed a handgun at him and ordered him to take more money out.

The man then took the victim's money and fled.

At 4:20 a.m., two men wearing ski masks entered a Shell station at 98-080 Kamehameha Highway, holding semiautomatic handguns.

They demanded money of the 39-year-old clerk, took his wallet and attempted to enter the safe. When that failed they took 11 packs of cigarettes and forced the clerk to lie on the floor before they fled.

Finally, at 5 a.m., two men wearing ski masks entered a Stadium Mall business. One ran around the counter and demanded the 25-year-old female clerk open the register while the other attempted to kick in the office door.

The clerk put the cash into a plastic bag and handed it over, and the men fled on foot.

Wai'anae man held in theft

A Wai'anae man, 18, was arrested outside the Kapolei KMart store on Sunday night after leaving without paying for a computer.