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Posted at 11:11 a.m., Friday, April 8, 2005

POLICE BEAT
Unrelated stabbings reported

Advertiser Staff

Police are looking into two unrelated stabbings that took place early this morning.

A Mililani man was stabbed at a home on Waikalani Drive about 3:30 a.m. by a second man estimated to be between 28 and 30 years old.

Police put out a bulletin for the alleged stabber who left the area in a black pickup truck that had flames painted on the hood, a smashed windshield and a broken rear tail light.

Police said the stabbing suspect is known to the victim and that the stabbing may have involved a "love triangle" in which a woman's former boyfriend stabbed her new boyfriend.

The stabbing victim was taken to Wahiawa General Hospital in serious condition and was later transferred to The Queen's Medical Center.

Police are logging it as an attempted second-degree murder.

In another case, one crew member stabbed another aboard a fishing boat at Kewalo Basin about 4:30 a.m. Police said the two men had been drinking, got into an argument and then a fist fight.

Police said the victim punched his fellow crew member who then drew a knife and stabbed the man who had punched him.

The stabbing victim was taken to Straub Clinic & Hospital in serious condition.

The other party was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault after he went to The Queen's Medical Center to seek treatment for a hand injury, police said.



SUV driven into store

No one was injured this morning when a motorist drove her late model Toyota 4Runner through the front window of a 7-Eleven store at the corner of Dillingham Boulevard and Mokauea Street.

Police said the woman who was driving the sports utility vehicle apparently fell asleep as she pulled into the convenience store's parking lot about 6:20 a.m. The 4Runner kept going through a plate glass window and took out several display racks filled with motor oil, Styrofoam coolers and other merchandise before coming to rest fully inside the store.

Store workers and the cash registers were all in the other half of the store when the crash occurred. The Toyota was pushed back out of the store a few minutes after the accident happened and store workers swept up the mess, police said.



Arrest made in sexual assault

A 30-year-old Kapolei man was arrested yesterday after a 13-year-old girl told police the man had sexually assaulted her.

Police described the man as an acquaintance of the girl.

He was arrested on suspicion of five counts of first-degree sexual assault and one count of third-degree sexual assault.