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Posted at 10:57 a.m., Thursday, November 10, 2005

POLICE BEAT
Bogus $20 bill leads to arrest

Advertiser Staff

A 23-year-old Kalihi man was arrested last night after he allegedly tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill at a Ward Center restaurant.

Police said the man ordered a drink at the restaurant's bar and tried to pay with a bogus $20 bill.

The customer tried to leave the restaurant after the bill's authenticity was challenged but was stopped by a restaurant employee.

Police arrived and arrested the suspect for suspicion of first-degree forgery.



Teen girls,13, lied about kidnapping, sexual assault

Two 13-year-old Wai'anae girls are in hot water with police and their parents after falsely claiming they were kidnapped yesterday by a man who attempted to sexually assault them.

The girls told police they were forced into a white van about 1:30 p.m. by an unknown man in his 30s who took them to a beach park, threatened to harm them and ordered them to remove their clothes.

When the girls were taken back to the scene and questioned separately by detectives, they gave widely differing accounts as to what happened before eventually admitting they lied to their parents.

Police said the pair admitted there was no van or kidnapper and that they walked to the beach to meet up with their friends.



Waikiki man arrested as burglary suspect

A 23-year-old Waikiki man was arrested for suspicion of burglary yesterday after a witness saw him leaping from one balcony to another on the top floor of a Waikiki hotel.

Police arrived at the hotel a little past 4 p.m. and watched a man scale down the exterior of the building from the top floor to the one below and disappear into a room.

While officers were searching the hotel and the surrounding area, they came across a man in the parking lot of an adjacent hotel who fit the description of the suspect and saw that he was holding a backpack with an ID tag attached to it.

The officers called the telephone number on the tag and reached a man who said he was in his hotel room and just learned that it had been burglarized.

The hotel guest was brought to parking lot and identified the backpack and its contents as his.

The suspect was then arrested for first-degree burglary.



Boy, 14, arrested while driving stolen car

A 14-year-old Kapolei boy was arrested about 10:40 p.m. in Hau'ula yesterday after police reported finding him driving a stolen car.

The boy was arrested for suspicion of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle and was later released without charges pending further investigation.



Kane'ohe man arrested for alleged sexual assault

A 25-year-old Kane'ohe man was arrested yesterday in connection with the sexual assault of a 20-year-old woman Oct. 2.

The victim told police she awoke about 5:45 a.m. to find she was being sexually assaulted. The woman went to the Sex Abuse Treatment Center for an examination following the attack and called police from there.

The woman identified the suspect in a photographic lineup and he was arrested yesterday at Marine Corps Base Kane'ohe.