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Posted at 12:28 p.m., Wednesday, January 11, 2006

POLICE BEAT
Man beaten over parking stall

Advertiser Staff

A 23-year-old Manoa man was arrested yesterday evening after he allegedly punched out a 20-year-old man during a dispute over a parking space at the Nu'uanu YMCA.

Police said the man who was punched told them he waited for the parking spot to open and pulled in when it did.

He said he was confronted by the other man who wanted the same stall, and who reached into his car to strike him in the face repeatedly until he agree to give up the stall.

Police were called and arrested the alleged assailant for suspicion of unlawful entry into a motor vehicle, a felony.



Man driving stolen motorcycle arrested

A 29-year-old Halawa Heights man was arrested about 7 p.m. yesterday after a 27-year-old man told police he saw the older man riding a motorcycle that had been stolen from him.

Police said the motorcycle owner followed the suspected thief to a home in Honolulu, confronted the man and called police, who arrived to arrested the suspect for suspicion of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.



Teens' joyride ends in arrest

A 15-year-old O'ahu girl who took a car without permission from her 54-year-old grandmother and went joy-riding with her boyfriend in Waikiki was arrested about 4:15 a.m. yesterday.

Police arrested the girl and her boyfriend at the corner of Kalakaua and Ka'iulani avenues after the boyfriend, 17, hit a street sign while trying to flee from the area.

Passengers in the car said both of the teens had taken turns driving it. The two were arrested for suspicion of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.