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Man threatened to kill wife, two sons

Police said they arrested a 44-year-old Wai'anae man who threatened to kill his wife and family with a pistol late Sunday evening.

The man was arguing with his 38-year-old wife around 11:50 p.m. at their Wai'anae Valley Road home, when he punched and kicked her, police said. He then got a .38-caliber pistol and told his wife and two sons, ages 12 and 17, that he was going to kill them before killing himself, police said.

The oldest son called police, who arrested the man on terroristic threatening and other charges.

Mob being sought in Whitmore attack

Police are looking for 20 to 25 people who attacked two 21-year-old men late Friday night in the parking lot of Whitmore Community Center in Wahiawa.

The two men told police they were attacked by the group, most of whom were armed with baseball bats and broken beer bottles, at 11:46 p.m. One of them was beaten for five to 10 minutes and suffered a minor stab wound near the left shoulder blade, police said.

Neither victim was seriously injured.

There have been no arrests in the case, which is being investigated as an attempted murder.

Three men sought in Kane'ohe attack

Police have opened an attempted-murder investigation into a complaint by a 35-year-old man who said he was confronted by three armed men late Saturday night in the driveway of a closed flower shop on Kamehameha Highway in Kane'ohe.

The man said he stopped in the driveway at 11:15 p.m. to meet an acquaintance.

Three masked men armed with rifles surrounded his car, police said. One of them used the butt of a rifle to break into the car from the passenger-side door, the man told police.

Police said one of the men shot at the car, shattering its rear window, as the man drove off.

The suspects are still at large, police said.

Two men charged in sex assaults

Police charged two men Saturday with first-degree sexual assault in unrelated attacks on young girls.

Bradley K. Brown, 37, is charged with nine counts of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, who told police the attacks started when she was 8 years old. Brown is being held in lieu of $150,000 bail.

Bernard Orzechauski, also 37, is accused of assaulting an 8-year-old girl on Feb. 24. His bail is $75,000.

Investigators await autopsy results

Police and fire investigators are awaiting results of an autopsy scheduled to be performed on a body recovered at a fire scene Saturday in Wai'alae.

Investigators want to establish that no foul play is involved, fire investigator Capt. Glenn Solem said.

The body is believed to be that of an 84-year-old woman who lived in the house. The medical examiner had not released her identity yesterday.

Solem also has requested lab tests to determine if an electrical short caused the fire that gutted the residence at 1184 Iki Place and damaged a second house.