Police yesterday captured a 34-year-old women's prison inmate who walked away from a furlough program last summer.

Acting on an anonymous tip, police converged on a Waikiki hotel and found Natalie Y. Yaji hiding in one of the rooms. She was arrested for suspicion of second-degree escape.

Yaji was serving time for two counts of second-degree theft and three counts of second-degree forgery.

Cisco Silva, 41, who was with Yaji when she was found, was arrested on suspicion of hindering prosecution and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Suspect held in auto thefts

A 20-year-old Kane'ohe man was arrested yesterday as a suspect in two auto-theft cases. A tipster told police that the man was seen driving two different vehicles with "punched" ignitions near the Ko'olau Village at Kamau Place in Kane'ohe.

The tipster provided the license plate numbers to police who confirmed that the two cars had been reported stolen.

Officers from the Windward O'ahu crime reduction unit were able to identify a possible suspect and then put together a photographic lineup from which a witness identified the man as the one they had seen driving the vehicles.

Girl, 14, detained after stabbing

A 14-year-old Kalihi girl was arrested yesterday on suspicion of second-degree assault after she allegedly stabbed a 13-year-old classmate in the arm.

Police said the two girls got into an argument after school during which the older girl ran to her aunt's house, got a knife and went back and stabbed the younger girl, who was not seriously injured.

The older girl was arrested and then released to her parents pending further investigation.

Furlough center inmates sought

Law enforcement officials are asking for the public's help in finding two men who walked away from the O'ahu Community Correctional Center's Laumaka Work Furlough Center.

Louie Saya, 34, left the center on Sunday. He is 6 feet 1 inch tall and approximately 230 pounds and last lived on Gulick Street in Kalihi.

Jeffrey Chevalier, 36, left the center on Monday. He is 5 feet 8, approximately 145 pounds and last lived on Kuhono Place in Kane'ohe.