A 40-year-old man told police he was sitting in his car with two women friends about 10:45 p.m. when two men approached the car. He said one of the men saw a TV on the rear seat of the car and asked to buy it.

But as negotiations faltered, the driver began to pull out of the parking lot and the man who asked about buying the TV ran around to the side of the car and fired three shots, causing the left front and left rear tires to go flat, police said.

The gunman ran away from the park before police arrived but the driver of the disabled car gave police the shooter's name.

The case was initially classified as an attempted murder but was later changed to criminal property damage.

The gunman will also likely be charged with failure to keep a firearm in a proper place and being a felon in possession of a firearm, police said.

Club doorman assaulted

A 36-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault following an attack on a doorman at the Ocean Club in Restaurant Row early this morning.

Police said the doorman, 22, was escorting the man from the club about 12:35 a.m. after the man, who was a customer, got into an argument with club employees.

The customer was outside the entrance to the club when he allegedly grabbed a metal stanchion, hit the doorman on the head with it and ran away.

Police quickly found the customer and arrested him. The doorman refused treatment for a gash and a bump on his head but later went to The Queen's Medical Center on his own, where he was treated and released, police said.

Mail goes up in flames in La'ie

Fire caused minor damage to the La'ie Post Office last night, police said.

Someone ignited an object about 10:05 p.m. and placed it in a mail chute that leads to the interior of the building. The fire was limited to the mail chute and mail that had been collected in a metal basket the chute empties into.

Fire officials estimated the damage to the Post Office at about $5,000 and $2,000 to the mail that was destroyed by the fire.

Noise complaint leads to terrorist charge

A 33-year-old man was arrested early this morning after he allegedly threatened a woman neighbor who he believed was making too much noise.

Police were called to an apartment building at 607 North King St. about 12:20 a.m. by a 22-year-old woman resident who said she was talking with friends when the man approached her group, punched the wall across from her apartment and told her to shut up.

The woman told police the man then stabbed the wall with a knife at which point help was sought. Police arrived and arrested the man on suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening.

Stolen check foils bank customer

A 29-year-old man was arrested about 11:25 a.m. yesterday at a bank in Kapahulu after he allegedly tried to cash a stolen check.

Police said a teller realized the check had been reported stolen and police were called to the bank, where they arrested the man for suspicion of second-degree forgery.

Purse snatcher arrested

Police yesterday arrested a 29-year-old man as a suspect in a purse-snatching incident that took place at Waimalu Shopping Plaza late Monday night.

A 47-year-old woman told police she was walking at the shopping center when a man approached her from the back and grabbed her handbag.

The woman said she struggled to hold on to the bag and yelled for help as the man dragged her along the ground.

The attacker finally wrestled the handbag away from the woman and fled, but police officers who were in the area spotted the suspect behind Waimalu Elementary School.

The man jumped into the canal to try to elude police but was captured on the other side and arrested on suspicion second-degree robbery after being identified by the victim and witnesses.

Bait car aids police

The use of a "bait car" was successful once again yesterday for police, who have been using the cars recently to catch people in the act of breaking into them.

This time, police set the car up on the eastbound shoulder of the H-1 Freeway in Waimalu and watched as a motorist in a van pulled up to the car about 12:30 a.m. and two men and a woman got out and began removing items from the car.

Two men from Waipi'o Acres address, ages 18 and 34, and a 22-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of unlawful entry into a motor vehicle.

One of the men was also arrested on suspicion of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle after police found that the van the trio arrived in had been reported stolen earlier.

Alert officer retrieves stolen goods

A 24-year-old man was arrested near Kekuilani Loop and Wahipana Street in Kapolei early yesterday as a suspect in two burglaries that took place just hours earlier.

An officer who was on routine patrol rolled up on a car about 12:30 a.m. that had two men inside and a flat tire.

As the officer approached, one of the men got out and ran away. While the officer was identifying the driver, several items that had been taken in the two burglaries less than two hours prior were spotted in the car.

The driver was then arrested for suspicion of two counts of first-degree burglary.

Maui crash leaves teen injured

A 17-year-old Lahaina boy was critically injured in a traffic accident on Maui yesterday evening.

Maui police traffic investigators said Christopher Boskoff ran a red light at 6:08 p.m. while riding a moped south on Honoapi'ilani Highway at the Leialii Parkway intersection and ran into the passenger side of a Ford F-150 truck whose driver was making a left turn in front of the moped. The truck's driver was making the turn on a green arrow and had the right of way at the time of the crash, police said.

The truck driver, a 48-year-old Lahaina man, and his two female passengers were not injured. Boskoff was taken to the Maui Memorial Medical Center.