Witnesses called police about 10:40 p.m. to report a motorist had struck a parked car and fled. One of the witnesses then followed the motorist to the Ala Wai harbor where the driver reportedly got out and climbed aboard a boat.

When a police officer spotted the man on the boat, the man went to the bow and cast off then collided with other boats, police said.

After the man had wedged his boat alongside another large boat, the owner of the other boat and a police officer jumped onto the fleeing boat and subdued the man.

He was arrested on suspicion of first-degree criminal property damage, fleeing the scene of a motor vehicle collision and two counts of operating a vehicle under the influence of intoxicating substances.

Shotgun makes appearance in argument about barking dog

Police defused a confrontation between neighbors in Kaimuki yesterday stemming from a barking dog.

They said a 44-year-old man was upset over his neighbor's barking dog and yelled at him to quiet down the dog.

Police said the neighbor, 49, yelled back and an argument between the two men ensued.

The man bothered by the dog told police he then ran up to his neighbor's fence and began screaming obscenities at him. He said his neighbor went into his house and returned holding a shotgun.

Police were then called to the scene. They detained the neighbor with the shotgun. The neighbor who was upset at the dog then decided to shake hands and drop the complaint against the man with the shotgun. The dog's owner later promised to move the dog to the other side of his house, police said.

Arrest in car-flipping incident

A 63-year-old man was arrested yesterday in connection with an April 24 incident in Waialua in which a 62-year-old man reported being inside a car that was flipped over by a forklift.

Police were told that the two men were arguing over whether the car in question needed to be removed from a lot in Waialua.

They said the younger man got into the car to try to keep the older man from removing it with a forklift.

Police were told the older man then proceeded to pick up the car with th forklift and partially flip it over with the other man still inside.

The man who was in the car told police he jumped out to avoid serious injury.

The forklift operator left the area before police arrived but turned himself in yesterday at the Wahiawa Police Station.

He was arrested on suspicion of first-degree criminal property damage.

Man reports bill-snatching incident

Police are searching for a 29-year-old man who got into a squabble yesterday with a 46-year-old man over a $20 bill that had fallen on the ground in downtown Honolulu.

The older man told police he had dropped the bill on the ground while walking through the area about 5:50 p.m. He said the younger man grabbed then said: "Beat it before I take the rest of your money."

The older man told police he was concerned about his safety and walked away.