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Posted at 11:37 a.m., Monday, June 13, 2005

POLICE BEAT
Man accused of terrorizing apartments

Advertiser Staff

A 37-year-old man was arrested last night after allegedly terrorizing several people at an apartment complex in Gentry Waipio.

Police said a 43-year-old woman who had been visiting a resident at the complex was walking back to her car when a man confronted her with a shirt wrapped around his hand.

The man told the woman he had a gun and took the woman's cell phone and car keys. He told the woman to get into the car with him, police said, but she refused.

The suspect then told her to go back to the apartment she had come from. The woman walked back to the apartment with the suspect following her and he tried to force his way in when the two reached the doorway, police said. The commotion awakened a man who lives at the apartment and he confronted the suspect, who then ran to another part of the complex, climbed up to a second-floor lanai and approached three men inside the second apartment.

He once again pretended to have a gun under his shirt and took a cell phone and cash from the second group of victims before running to a third apartment and entering through an unlocked door.

There, he demanded items from yet another man, took his car keys and ran from the apartment with the apartment resident in pursuit. The suspect threw down the car keys and kept running, police said.

Arriving officers spotted the suspect and were able to catch up with him at the corner of Pa'a'ono and Pa'awalu streets after a brief foot chase.

The suspect was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, robbery, burglary, terroristic threatening and resisting arrest.



Bus argument ends in arrest

A 15-year-old Kane'ohe boy was arrested yesterday after he exchanged words with a city bus driver in Kane'ohe, police said.

Police said the boy was riding on the bus with two other boys when they began to talk and sing very loudly on the bus, disturbing the other passengers.

The driver asked the boys to quiet down and one of them threatened to harm the driver. Once outside the bus, the same boy walked to the back and punched the rear window, causing it to crack, police said

Arriving officers arrested the boy on suspicion of interfering with the operations of a public transit vehicle, a felony, and third-degree criminal property damage, a misdemeanor.



Police say they find weapons, narcotics

Things went from bad to worse yesterday for a 20-year-old man who was arrested on Friday as a suspect in a car break-in. Police had seized the man's own car as evidence in the car break-in case and executed a search warrant yesterday to go through the car for evidence related to the prior case.

The search of the man's car turned up two handguns, a shotgun and several packets of narcotics, police said.

The suspect was then arrested about 3 p.m. at the Kapolei police station on suspicion of second-degree promotion of dangerous drugs, failure to properly store firearms and second-degree promotion of detrimental drugs.



Stabbing sends husband to hospital

A 22-year-old Kunia woman was arrested after she allegedly stabbed her husband early yesterday morning.

Police said the husband believed his wife was having an affair with a neighbor and was arguing with her when he pushed her to the floor.

The husband left for a while and returned home about 2:30 a.m. to find his wife armed with two knives, police said. They said she threw one of the knives at him and stabbed him twice in the left chest with the other.

Police, who had been called to the home, arrested the wife on suspicion of second-degree assault. The husband, 25, was taken to the Wahiawa General Hospital emergency room, where he was treated and released.