A 20-year-old O'ahu man was arrested early today in Kapahulu on suspicion of two felony firearms charges.

Police said they responded to a call about 12:30 a.m. that a group of men were loitering and drinking, and found five to seven men standing around a pickup truck at the corner of Castle Street and Kapahulu Avenue.

Police said the officers could see a shotgun in the back area of the truck cab. The man who claimed ownership of the truck was then arrested on suspicion of the charges of failure to keep a firearm in a proper place and having a firearm with a defaced serial number.

3 men arrested in burglary

Three men from Wai'anae were arrested yesterday evening for allegedly stealing a video- game system from the neighbor of one of them.

The neighbor, 37, told police that when she left her home about 1 p.m. she saw a group of boys standing in front of her home.

She returned home about 7 p.m. to find her house had been broken into and an Xbox game system missing.

The woman said she approached her neighbor about the missing Xbox who then confronted her son, who confessed to portions of the burglary, police said.

Police were called, and three of the four participants in the burglary, all of them 18, were arrested on suspicion of first-degree burglary. Police said the fourth man is being sought.

Teens arrested in moped theft

Two boys who were stopped in separate incidents yesterday for allowing passengers to ride on the mopeds they were operating now face vehicle theft charges.

Police stopped a 16-year-old boy about 10 last night in Makiki for carrying another boy on the moped he was riding and then discovered that a 22-year-old woman had reported the moped stolen.

The boy was arrested on suspicion of vehicle theft and was later released pending further investigation.

About three hours earlier, police stopped two boys, ages 15 and 16, for riding double on a moped in Kahala.

A check showed that a 20-year-old man had reported the moped stolen, and the two boys were arrested on suspicion of vehicle theft, and one of the boys for driving without a license.

3 arrested in Sept. 8 assault

Two men and a boy are facing multiple charges after they were arrested yesterday in connection with a Sept. 8 incident at Hukilau Beach in La'ie in which five men reported being attacked.

Police said the men who were attacked said one of the assailants used an 8-foot-long, 4-by-4-inch piece of lumber to attack one of the men.

Another of the victims was slightly injured when one of the attackers reached into the car he was sitting in and hit him, police said.

Three of the alleged assailants were arrested yesterday on suspicion of assault, criminal property damage and unlawful entry into a motor vehicle. Police said additional arrests are pending.

Wai'anae High student arrested

A 15-year-old student was arrested at Wai'anae High School yesterday after he allegedly threatened to harm a school security worker who told the boy to return to class after finding him with a group of boys at the school's football field.

Police said the boy got angry at being told to return to class about 11:30 a.m. and threatened the security worker.