Posted at 10:56 a.m., Thursday, October 27, 2005
Police Beat: Two girls shot with BBs
Advertiser Staff
A 13-year-old boy who is a student at Waimanalo Elementary School was arrested there yesterday after he allegedly used an "air soft" gun to shoot two girls, ages 11 and 12, in the buttocks.Police said the boy pulled out the gun on the school playground about 9:50 a.m. and shot the two girls, who are also students at the school.
School authorities were notified and called police who went to the school and arrested the boy on suspicion of third-degree assault.
Air soft guns are made to look like real weapons but fire plastic BBs instead of bullets.
Man accused of assaulting officer
Police arrested a 23-year-old Waimanalo man yesterday after he allegedly assaulted a patrol officer who had gone to investigate a report of a loud argument.
Several officers arrived about 4 p.m. and had detained the suspect for questioning when he attacked one of the officers without warning or provocation, police said.
The other officers subdued and arrested the suspect and the injured officer was taken to Castle Medical Center, where he was treated for unspecified minor injuries and released.
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault against a police officer.
Man reports attack by boys
Two boys, ages 13 and 14, were arrested yesterday after they allegedly terrorized a 40-year-old man near A'ala Park.
The victim told police the two boys were part of a group of boys who accosted him about 7:30 a.m.
He said one of the boys grabbed two paperback books from his shopping cart and threw them on the ground. The second boy then picked the books up and threw them in the river, the victim told police.
The man said he swung padlocks suspended on a string at the boys in hopes of scaring them away, but one of them picked up two concrete bricks and threw them at him, while the other boy picked up an aluminum pipe. A security guard broke up the disturbance and the boys began to walk away.
Police stopped the boys and arrested the two on suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening, fourth-degree theft nand criminal littering.
Police investigate sexual assault allegation
A 23-year-old man was arrested yesterday as a suspect in a sexual assault case alleged to have occurred Sunday.
A 22-year-old woman told police the suspect assaulted her at a home in Kaimuki at about 7 a.m.
Police classified the case as a second-degree sexual assault.
