An anonymous caller phoned the Wahiawa police station at about 11:45 a.m. to report that a man could be found sitting in a stolen Ford Mustang at the corner of Waikalani Street and Waikalani Place in the Melemanu subdivision near Kamehameha Highway.

Police arrived at the scene and confirmed that a 25-year-old man had reported that the car had been stolen from him.

As the officers rolled up on the Mustang and prepared to arrest the 23-year-old driver, who has no local address, he quickly drove off.

A police helicopter, which happened to be almost directly overhead at the time for unrelated reasons, tracked the Mustang a short distance and watched as the driver lost control of the vehicle and smashed into a parked truck.

The helicopter pilot told officers on the ground that the driver jumped out of the car and ran into a nearby building.