Police said the woman walked into the loan company about 12:10 p.m. and filled out an application. The company manager was reviewing the application when he noticed the identification card the woman submitted appeared to have a photograph of a different woman, police said.

They said the manager told the woman she did not look like the woman in the photo on the ID card at which point the woman applying for the loan told him she had gotten a facelift.

The manager called police who arrested the woman for suspicion of identity theft, forgery and theft.

Abuse sends 10-year-old girl to hospital, police say

HILO, Hawai'i — A 10-year-old Big Island girl is in critical condition at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children in what police are calling a case of "severe abuse."

Big Island police said the mother had left the girl in the care of a Puna couple, who called the fire department for assistance. The child was taken to Hilo Medical Center on Feb. 7, suffering from festering head and body wounds, police said. Hospital personnel then notified police and she was transferred to the Honolulu hospital.

Police have classified the case as endangering the welfare of a child and may bring other charges, although no one has been arrested yet.

Punch lands woman in jail

Police arrested a 20-year-old woman on Auahi Street in Kaka'ako about 9:55 p.m. yesterday after she allegedly reached into a truck and punched a 28-year-old woman.

The younger woman was arrested for suspicion of unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle, a felony.

Name released on woman found off Lanai Lookout

Police and the city Department of the Medical Examiner has identified a body found floating yesterday in ocean waters of the Lanai Lookout near Hawai'i Kai as that of Eileen Chong, 40, of a Wainiha Street address in Hawai'i Kai.

The body was spotted by a passing motorist at about 3 p.m. and was recovered by firefighters. Police said there were no obvious injuries to the body.

The cause of Chong's death had not yet been determined.

Counterfeit money orders reported

A 31-year-old Kailua woman was arrested yesterday after she allegedly tried to cash three counterfeit $1,000 U.S. Postal Service money orders at the Kapalama Post Office.

Police said the woman went to the post office, at 1271 N. King St., about 1:25 p.m. and presented the money orders.

Post office workers checked on the money orders, determined all three were bogus and called Postal Service inspectors. After it was determined the money orders were fraudulent, the matter was turned over to police who arrested the woman on suspicion of first-degree forgery.

Teen alleges assault

An 18-year-old 'Aiea man was arrested yesterday in connection with a report filed by a 14-year-old girl who said she was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance about 8:30 p.m. Saturday.

The suspect was arrested for suspicion of second-degree sexual assault.

Domestic argument ends in fire threat

A 43-year-old Nanakuli man was arrested yesterday morning as he was preparing to set his sister's home and her car on fire, police said.

The sister, 33, told police she had been arguing with her brother, who lives at the same home, at about 4:45 a.m. when he threatened her with a chain and minutes later, with a wooden club.

She said her brother then left the home on Halona Road but came back about two hours later and retrieved two one-gallon gas cans from the home, saying he was going to burn up her and her family as well as her car.

Police said officers arrived at the home just as the suspect finished pouring gasoline on the home's porch steps and the sisters car. The officers were able to subdue the man before he could ignite the gas.

The brother was arrested for suspicion of attempted criminal property damage and terroristic threatening.

Stolen van recovered; woman arrested at lookout

A 23-year-old woman was arrested about 2:15 a.m. yesterday morning after a police officer reported finding her in the driver's seat of a van that was parked at a lookout areas along Tantalus Drive.

The officer was making routine checks of the lookout spots when he saw the van, checked on its license plate and learned that a 34-year-old old woman had reported the van was stolen previously.