Police said the officer found an intoxicated man near the school gym, who was drinking an alcohol beverage, and was in the process of escorting the man off school property about 10:45 p.m. when the suspect assaulted the officer.

The suspect ran after striking the officer several times but was apprehended, arrested and taken to The Queen's Medical Center to be treated for cuts and scrapes he received while being subdued.

The officer was taken to Straub Clinic and Hospital for injuries to his hand and was released in good condition. Once the suspect was released from Queen's, he was arrested for suspicion of assault against a police officer and criminal trespassing.

Neighbors capture suspect

Waimanalo residents along Laumilo Street came to the aid of one of their own last night when they ran after and captured an 18-year-old man suspected of breaking into the car of a 60-year-old man.

Police said neighbors "pursued and captured" the suspect at about 10:30 p.m. near the corner of Laumilo and Ehukai streets. The neighbors detained the man until police arrived and arrested him for suspicion of unlawful entry into a motor vehicle.

Gun found after alleged threat

A 64-year-old man was arrested yesterday in Waipahu for suspicion of several felony offenses after getting into a confrontation with a 57-year-old man at about 1 p.m.

The younger man told police the other man threatened to shoot him.

Police arrived and reported finding a handgun in the suspect's car. He was then arrested for suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening, first-degree trespassing and improper storage of a firearm.

Escapees had scaled fence

The three boys who escaped yesterday morning from the Hawaii Youth Correctional Center in Kailua — two of whom are 15 and the other 16 — scaled a chain-link fence about 9:35 a.m. that surrounds a recreation yard and ran toward the mountains behind the facility.

Two were captured at 10:05 a.m. and the other was caught about 11 a.m.

All three were arrested for suspicion of second-degree escape.

Police checking into sexual-assault report

Police are checking into a report filed by a 35-year-old woman who reported being sexually assaulted in Kailua Thursday morning.

The woman told police she went to the home of a male acquaintance, whose age is unknown, and that he assaulted her sometime between 2 a.m. and 5:45 a.m.

No arrests had been made as of this morning in the case, which was classified as a first-degree sexual assault.

Suspect arrested in beating case

Police yesterday arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with the July 13 beating of another 20-year-old man in Halawa.

Police said the victim received a broken nose when he was hit in the face with a stroller, and then punched and kneed in the head by the assailant.

Police said the victim positively identified the suspect via a photographic lineup.