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Posted at 10:45 a.m., Friday, December 10, 2004

Police Beat

Advertiser Staff

Truck accident leads to an arrest

A 20-year-old Manoa man was arrested on suspicion of stealing a truck yesterday after police learned the truck the man was driving when he got into an accident had been reported stolen.

Police said the man crashed the truck about 10 p.m., got out and drove away in a car that was parked nearby. A witness gave the car's license number to police.

Police checked on the truck's registration and learned it had been stolen. They then went to the home of the registered owner of the car the alleged truck thief was seen driving when he left the crash scene. Officers found the suspect at the home and arrested him.



Two face bomb threat charges

A 48-year-old woman and 28-year-old man were arrested yesterday on suspicion of threatening to blow up the Prince Kuhio Federal Building.

Police said the woman walked into the building about 4 p.m. and told a security worker she planned to blow it up. They said the man then called 911 to say someone had put a bomb in the building.

The two were held by the building's security staff until police arrived and arrested each of them on suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening.



Hawai'i Kai boy put under arrest

A 15-year-old boy arrested in Hawai'i Kai yesterday had left a drug treatment program at The Queen's Medical Center on Saturday without permission, police said.

They said the boy was confined to Queen's as a condition of his probation.

Police found the boy about 4:10 p.m. and arrested him on suspicion of second-degree escape.



Boy, 10, held in attack on teacher

A 10-year-old boy who attends Iroquois Point Elementary School was arrested yesterday on suspicion of felony assault after a special-education teacher told police the boy attacked her.

The teacher, 38, told police she separated the boy from his classmates about 12:10 p.m. for inappropriate behavior. She said the boy got upset when he wasn't allowed to return to class when he wanted to. The teacher said she told the boy to wait for a while, but he became agitated and injured her during what police described as a "physical confrontation."

Police were called to the school and arrested the boy.



Boy burglar caught on video

A Kailua boy was arrested on suspicion of first-degree burglary yesterday after the boy's neighbor turned over a videotape to police that allegedly shows the boy stealing things from the neighbor's home.

Police said the neighbor told them that his house had been broken into several times in recent months and that he suspected a 16-year-old boy, who lives nearby, was the culprit.

The homeowner, 47, told police he set up a video surveillance camera yesterday, put two $5 bills in a coin purse, left it out in an open place and went out from about 11 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.

The man said that when he returned, he saw the neighbor's son near his house and checked the videotape, which showed the boy searching through his house taking things. The man said he confronted the boy in front of the boy's parents and that the boy admitted entering the home and then tried to return the money.

Police were called and arrested the boy.



Elderly man's body discovered

Police are investigating the death of a 64-year-old man whose body was found floating yesterday in a drainage canal near the intersection of Kamehameha Highway and Hekaha Street in Waimalu.

A state Department of Transportation crew was clearing brush from the side of the highway when workers discovered the body in the canal just mauka of the highway.

Investigators are waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine whether foul play was involved.



Flasher sought in downtown area

Police say this man, photographed by a security camera, may be the exhibitionist.
Honolulu police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man who has exposed himself to several women in the downtown area.

The first incident occurred at about 7:15 p.m. on Oct. 25 in the parking stalls near Ali'iolani Hale at 417 South King St. On Dec. 1 and Dec. 2, the man was seen at night in the makai garage on Halekauwila Street, police said.

The man is described as in his 20s, 5-feet-6 to 5-feet-9, 160 pounds, with black, military type flat-top haircut.

Anyone with information should call Detective Vincent Domingo at 529-3995 or CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellular phone.