Two boys, 15 and 16, were arrested and booked on suspicion of car theft early yesterday morning after a police officer stopped a car in Kalihi and found it had been stolen.

The officer was responding to a suspicious-vehicle report and found one of the boys behind the steering wheel of a car that had been reported stolen earlier in the day.

The officer saw a second boy across the street trying to open the window of an enclosed garage that was attached to a house and was able to catch the boy.

The boy who was caught behind the wheel of the car admitted that the other boy was driving the car initially and came by his home to pick him up, police said.

Based on what police were told, both boys were arrested for suspicion of car theft.

Stolen-car driver under arrest

Police arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of car theft in Makaha last night after they saw the man driving away at about 7:15 p.m. from an area near Makua Beach where vehicles frequently are stolen.

Police ordered the man to pull over, checked the identification number of the car he was driving, determined it had been reported stolen and arrested the man.

Attack on officer leads to arrest

Police caught up yesterday with a man who allegedly struck a Wahiawa police officer in the face while the officer was trying to arrest him last month.

Police said the officer, acting on a tip, went to the man's Wahiawa home on Sept. 6 to arrest him on several warrants.

The officer told the man he was going to be arrested and the man, 20, responded by hitting the officer in the face and running away, police said.

Officers found the man yesterday and arrested him on new charges of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.

Help sought in finding lost man

Robert F. Sato

Police said Sato may be in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and may be disoriented.

He rides buses and was last seen Sept. 27 when his brother dropped him off at a bank in Waikiki

Anyone with information should call police investigator Calvin Sung at 529-3081. Anonymous calls may be made to CrimeStoppers at 955-8300, or *CRIME on cellular phones.