Police today were looking for a man who slashed a police officer on the ear with an ice pick.

The officer was on patrol at about 2 a.m. when he spotted the man behind a strip mall at 1311 N. King Street in Kalihi and stopped to ask the man what he was doing.

As the officer approached the man turned his back to the officer and then turned back toward him with the ice pick in his hand.

The officer ducked as the man lashed at him with the ice pick and was cut on the ear, police said.

The assailant ran from the area and the injured police officer was treated and released for the cut on his ear.

Woman arrested for ID fraud

A 26-year-old Waikiki woman was arrested on suspicion of identity theft and fraudulent use of a credit card about 5:30 p.m. yesterday at Ward Centre after she allegedly tried to use stolen credit cards and a stolen ID card to buy several pieces of clothing.

American Express told the clerk processing the sale that the card the women was using had been reported stolen.

Police were called and arrested the woman.

Woman arrested for forged check

A 39-year-old woman is facing forgery charges after entering a Mapunapuna bank yesterday and trying to cash a check on an account that had been closed for two years, police said.

They said the woman handed the check to the teller, who found the account the check was drawn was long closed.

The account holder was called and he confirmed that the account was closed and that he did not write the check the woman was attempting to cash.

Police were called and the woman was arrested at the bank.

Girl critical after pickup hits wall

A 2-year-old Maui girl was critically injured last night when the compact pickup truck her mother was driving hit a rock wall on Haleakala Highway near lower Kimo Drive in Kula.

Police said Nicolette Leilani Klukowski of Makawao was driving a 1998 Ford Ranger pickup southbound on the highway at about 10:35 p.m. when it drifted onto the right shoulder of the road and struck the wall.