At 7:57 p.m. last night, a 30-year-old Waikiki patrol officer approached a man who appeared to be staggering in the middle of Ala Wai Boulevard. As the officer walked up to the man, two other men walked in between them and started talking to the officer, police said.

Meanwhile, the staggering man allegedly ran up to the officer and punched him in the face, police said. The officer suffered a contusion, was treated and released from an area hospital, police said.

When the officer tried to run after the man who hit him, the other two men allegedly held him back. Responding officers arrested the man who punched the officer, police said.

The two men who restrained the officer were arrested on suspicion of hindering prosecution in the first degree. The man who punched the officer was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a law enforcement officer in the first degree.

Man robs convenience store at gunpoint

Police are looking for a man who held up a Kalihi-area store at gunpoint on Christmas Day.

At 9:33 p.m. Sunday night, the man walked into a Kalihi convenience store and pulled out a handgun, police said. He grabbed cash and cigarettes from the store clerk and ran away.

He is wanted on suspicion of first degree robbery.

Woman allegedly strikes man with meat cleaver

A 35-year-old woman was arrested after she allegedly hit another man in the neck with the dull side of a meat cleaver, police said.

At 7:20 p.m. last night the man and the woman got into an argument. During the argument the woman pulled out a meat cleaver and hit the man "several times" in the left shoulder and neck area.