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Posted at 11:47 a.m., Wednesday, August 17, 2005

POLICE BEAT
Search on for alleged sexual-assault suspect

Advertiser Staff

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Police yesterday were looking for a 47-year-old Wai'anae man who allegedly sexually assaulted a 3-year-old girl who is a member of his household.

The mother told police the incident occurred between 8 p.m. Monday and 1:30 a.m. the following morning.

The mother said the girl told her she had been assaulted. The girl was taken to Kapi'olani Medical Center for a sexual assault examination.

Police had not located nor arrested the suspect as of this morning.



Man uses lighter fluid, bat to terrorize home

A 23-year-old man was arrested at the O'ahu Community Correctional Center yesterday in connection with an April 12 incident in 'Aiea in which several people reported being terrorized.

Police said a 20-year-old woman reported that her ex-boyfriend came to her home carrying several cans of butane lighter fuel and Lysol disinfectant and threatened to blow up the home and everyone in it.

The woman told police the former boyfriend then used a baseball bat to break out the louvers from a window, showering glass on a 13-month-old infant inside the home and used the bat to break down a door leading to the home's interior.

Once inside, the man threatened everyone with a bat and than ran from the home as police were arriving, police said.

The suspect did not surface until it was discovered yesterday that he is in custody at OCCC awaiting trial on an unrelated first-degree burglary charge.

Members of a crime reduction unit from the Kalihi police substation went to the jail yesterday and arrested the former boyfriend for suspicion of first-degree burglary, criminal property damage, terroristic threatening and third-degree assault.



Boy, 14, arrested in Kahuku home burglary

A 14-year-old boy was arrested last night as a suspect in the burglary Sunday of a home on Leleuli Street in Kahuku.

The homeowner, 40, told police she saw the boy on her property before her family left for church . The family was gone between 9:30 a.m. and 1:10 p.m. and upon their return found the home had been burglarized.

The homeowner told police she saw the same boy last night and confronted him, and that he confessed to entering the home and stealing her son's newly purchased clothes.

The woman called police and the boy was arrested for suspicion of first-degree burglary.



Pedestrian hit in crosswalk

A pedestrian was critically injured this morning when she was hit by a van while crossing Cooke Street at the intersection with Halekauwila Street.

Witnesses told police that the woman, who appeared to be in her late 60s to mid 70s, was in a crosswalk when she was hit by the van when it was turning left from Halekauwila to travel mauka on Cooke.

Witnesses said it appeared the van driver simply did not see the pedestrian, possibly because the sun would have been directly in the van driver's eyes when the collision took place at about 6:50 a.m.

The driver of the late model Chevrolet delivery van stopped immediately after the woman was hit and went to check on her, witnesses said.



Phone dispute ends with man getting hit with pipe

A 26-year-old man was arrested yesterday evening after he allegedly went to the home of a 43-year-old Salt Lake man and hit him over the head with a pipe. Police said the two men were arguing over the phone just prior to the incident.

The victim was taken by ambulance to a hospital but police did not indicate what his condition was when he arrived.



Man threatens to kill girlfriend, arrested

A 29-year-old Waikiki man was arrested yesterday after he went to his girlfriend's workplace and allegedly threatened to kill her.

Police said the woman, 24, was pulling into a parking stall at he office on Seaside Avenue when her boyfriend jumped into her car, pulled a sickle from his backpack and threatened to kill her.

The boyfriend left before police arrived, but returned several hours later. Police were called and arrested the boyfriend for suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening and unlawful entry into a motor vehicle.



History of abuse leads to felony arrest

Police arrested a 49-year-old Wahiawa man yesterday for felony abuse of a household member.

Police said the man who was arrested has been together with his girlfriend for the past two years and that the couple has a baby girl.

The two adults got into an argument and the man hit the woman, causing minor injuries, police said.

The boyfriend ordinary would have been arrested for suspicion of misdemeanor abuse of a family or household member, police said, but because the suspect had two convictions for abuse of a household member within the past two years, he was arrested on the felony charge, police said.