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Posted at 10:25 a.m., Tuesday, July 26, 2005

POLICE BEAT
Woman arrested for passing counterfeit bill

Advertiser Staff

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A 45-year-old homeless woman was arrested about 4:30 this morning after she allegedly tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill at the Daiei complex in Waipahu.

Store security detained the suspect until police arrived and arrested her for suspicion of first-degree forgery.



Homeless man sleeping in stolen car arrested

A 30-year-old homeless man was arrested at about 12:45 a.m. today after police found him sleeping in a stolen car behind Leilehua High School in Wahiawa.

A police officer approached the car, checked on its registration and learned a 26-year-old man had reported it stolen earlier.

Police said the man found inside the car was awakened and blurted out to the officer that he had driven the car to the spot where it was found.

He was then arrested for suspicion of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.



Man who sees red after tomato offer arrested

A man who was offered free tomatoes was arrested yesterday evening for suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening.

Police said a 55-year-old man approached a 67-year-old man on a Punchbowl Street sidewalk around 6:10 p.m. and offered the stranger some tomatoes.

The older man became enraged, pulled a knife and threatened to kill the man who had offered the produce, police said.

The man who was threatened called police and identified the suspect when officers arrived.

The suspect was arrested without incident.



Three teens who threaten man with gun arrested

Three 18-year-old men, who live within a few blocks of one another in 'Ewa Beach, were arrested in downtown Honolulu a few minutes after midnight this morning after a 27-year-old man told police two of the three men drew guns and threatened to shoot him as he stood near the corner of Nu'uanu Avenue and North Vineyard Boulevard.

A police officer was heading up Nu'uanu and spotted the three men, who then ran to a nearby parking garage and tried to hide. The officer found the three men in the garage and the man who was allegedly threatened identified them. The three were arrested for suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening.

One of the guns police believe was used by the suspects was recovered and found to be an "air soft pellet" replica of a real gun.

Meanwhile, a 23-year-old man told police he was robbed about 11:45 last night while sitting in his car on the side of Queen Street.

The victim told police that a husky man in his early 30s came up to his car, pointed a silver handgun at him and demanded money.

The victim said he had no money and instead handed over his DVD player. He told police the robber took the DVD and got into a white car, one that had at least two other men inside, and drove away.

A short time later, three men were arrested in the downtown area after threatening a man with a handgun. The three are suspects in the Queen Street robbery, police said.