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Posted at 10:46 a.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005

POLICE BEAT
Two arrested trying to steal air-soft guns

Advertiser Staff

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A 20-year-old man and 16-year-old boy were arrested this morning as suspects in the break-in of an air-soft equipment store on Beretania Street in McCully.

Air-soft guns look almost identical to real weapons but shoot plastic BBs.

Police officers responded to an alarm about 12:30 a.m. at the Zero System store and found two broken windows.

Two people ran from the area in front of the store and were captured nearby .

The two were arrested for suspicion of second-degree burglary.



Cops search for suspect in thwarted car theft

Police are continuing to look for a 28-year-old man suspected of stealing a car yesterday morning from a naked woman at Mokule'ia Beach.

The woman told police she was in her tent about 8 a.m. when she heard the car's engine start.

The woman ran out of the tent in the nude and jumped on the hood of the car to try to keep it from being stolen, police said.

Police said the car swerved back and forth and made a series of sharp U-turns in hopes of dislodging the woman, who was finally dislodged from the car near Camp Erdman on Farrington Highway.

A witness who saw what was happening followed the stolen car and driver in his own car until the suspect used the stolen car to ram the witness' car before fleeing, police said.



Police nab suspect for unauthorized entry

A 20-year-old man was arrested in He'eia last night after a police officer came across a car about 11:55 p.m. stopped in the middle of Iki'iki Street.

The officer saw a man get out from a truck that was parked on the site of the street and watched as he got into the parked car and drove away.

The officer ordered the man in the car to pull over, checked on the parked truck and discovered it had been broken into and its stereo was partially removed.

The man who was seen running from the truck was arrested for suspicion of unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle, a felony.