The victim told investigators he heard a knock at his door about 12:30 a.m. and that the two strangers asked to speak to someone whose name he did not recognize.

The victim said he had opened the door slightly to talk with the two men who tried to force their way in after he told the pair he did not know the person they were asking for.

Police said the victim told them he and his friends were trying to force the apartment door closed when the two men threatened to kill them and one of them fired a handgun at them.

The two men took off before police arrived.

Couple tied up in home, robbed at gunpoint

Police are looking for two suspects who broke into a Punchbowl area apartment early Friday and robbed the two occupants.

A 56-year-old man who lives in the apartment told police the two men entered about 2 a.m. and that one of them pointed a gun at him while the other awakened a woman, 54, and demanded to know where the safe was.

Police said there was no safe in the apartment and it appeared the robbers may have gone to the wrong apartment. The two intruders tied up the couple, searched the apartment for about 15 minutes, and took a number of items.

The man was able to free himself and call police.

Stolen car recovered

It didn't take police very long to locate a stolen car belonging to a 77-year-old Windward O'ahu woman.

The car was stolen on Saturday, and yesterday a witness reported seeing it being driven by a 19-year-old man in the Kahalu'u area.

Police were sent to the area and arrested the driver about 5 p.m. for suspicion of operating a stolen vehicle. They later learned that a 17-year-old boy who was in the car when it was stopped, may have driven the car, so he was arrested for suspicion of the same offense as well.

Man caught sleeping in car arrested

A 66-year-old Ke'eaumoku man got a surprise yesterday morning when he returned to his car parked on Rycroft Street about 7:50 a.m. and found a man he did not know sleeping in the front passenger seat.

The car owner told police he had secured the car when he parked it on the street the night before and found the stranger sitting up but sleeping the following morning.

Police were called to the scene and arrested the man for suspicion of unlawful entry into a motor vehicle.