Police said the older woman was sitting outside a courtroom waiting for the 1:30 hearing to begin when the younger woman began talking to her.

When the older woman did not respond, the younger woman began yelling at and threatening her, police said.

Police officers who were present to testify at several different hearings witnessed the incident and arrested the younger woman for suspicion of intimidating a witness and second-degree terroristic threatening.

Food thefts lead to arrests

Three Waipahu youths, each 17 years old, were arrested last night after they allegedly took items from a convenience store and refused to pay.

Police said a store worker watched two of the boys leave the store without paying for food goods before blocking the door to try to keep a third boy from leaving. The third youth shoved the worker and the trio ran away, police said.

Police were called, found the three boys nearby and arrested them for suspicion of robbery.

All three were released without charges.

Convicted felon with unregistered gun arrested

Police caught up yesterday with a Kahalu'u woman wanted in connection with a September incident in which she allegedly pointed a handgun at a former roommate and threatened to shoot him.

Police said the two former roommates, each 48 years old, were packing items to move out of the house they shared when they got into an argument.

The male roommate said the woman pulled a handgun out of her bag and pointed it at him, but that he was able to rush the woman and disarm her.

The woman left before officers arrived, but checks on the gun showed it to be unregistered and a background check on the woman showed that she was a convicted felon, police said.

Police located the woman at a home in Kahalu'u yesterday and arrested her for suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening, being a felon in possession of a firearm and possessing an unregistered firearm.