Police Beat
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Man arrested in stabbing
Police yesterday arrested a 30-year-old man suspected of stabbing his girlfriend with a kitchen knife during an argument Sunday night at her home in Pearl City.
The woman, 32, was in critical but stable condition at The Queen's Medical Center with multiple stab wounds, police said. Officers responded to the woman's home shortly before 11 p.m.
The woman's mother and two brothers also were injured. The mother, 55, suffered knife cuts on both hands while one of the brothers, 32, was stabbed in the back, police said. Both were taken to Queen's. The other man was treated at the scene.
The assailant was later arrested at his Kamehameha Heights home.
Kidnap, beating prompt arrest
Police arrested a 27-year-old Mililani man Sunday on suspicion that he kidnapped and beat a woman last week.
The woman, 21, told police her former boyfriend struck her on the head and knocked her unconscious Wednesday during an argument at a Mililani-area apartment. The woman, who was found on a road, was treated for internal head injuries, a broken nose and ruptured eardrum, police said. The man was booked for first-degree assault.
Three arrested in shoplifting
A woman and girl were charged Sunday by police for allegedly shoplifting more than $1,000 worth of items from a Duty Free Shoppers store in Waikiki on Saturday.
Dalyn Molinaro, 40, was charged with second-degree theft. Her bail was set at $15,000. The girl, 16, was charged as a juvenile with the same offense.
A third woman, 26, was arrested for allegedly shoplifting designer sunglasses. She was booked for second-degree theft but later released.
Man charged in sexual assault
A 43-year-old 'Ahuimanu man was charged Sunday with sexual assault regarding an alleged incident involving his ex-girlfriend in her Kane'ohe home on Friday.
Alvin Park is charged with two counts of first-degree sex assault and one count of second-degree sex assault.
Off-road victim dies of injuries
A 22-year-old Kahuku man injured in an Oct. 19 off-road motor-vehicle accident died Saturday morning at The Queen's Medical Center. The man was identified as Leif Leiataua.
Man charged in escape, robbery
HILO, Hawai'i — Prison escapee Brian Lee Patrick was charged Saturday with robbing Bank of Hawaii's KTA supermarket branch in Keauhou, Kona, on Christmas Eve.
Patrick, 32, was charged with escaping from the Hale Nani Correctional Facility and the bank robbery.
