A store cashier, 43, said the man entered the store, which is about a block mauka of the Convention Center, at about 4:45 p.m. She said the man pulled out a knife and demanded money.

The cashier told police that when she stepped away from the cash register, the robber walked around the counter and tried to open it himself, but could not. Police said the would-be robber ran out of the store empty-handed.

They said a witness who was in the store at the time of the incident followed the man out of store and pointed out his whereabouts to responding police officers. They located the suspect near the corner of Makaloa Street and Kalauokalni Way and arrested him on suspicion of first-degree robbery.

Punchbowl man arrested in Kalihi area robbery incident

A 30-year-old Punchbowl man was arrested yesterday in connection with a robbery in the Kalihi area of a 46-year-old man.

The older man to police the younger one approached him about 4 p.m., grabbed him around the neck, asked for money and then cut him with a sharp object. The victim told police he handed over all of his money and the robber ran away.

Police caught up with him later and arrested him on suspicion of first-degree robbery and second-degree assault.

Pickup driver arrested in vehicular assault incident

A 35-year-old man turned himself into police yesterday as a suspect in an alleged vehicular assault incident in Salt Lake.

A 46-year-old man told police that at about 3 p.m. May 2 he intervened in a situation between his wife and an acquaintance on Salt Lake Boulevard. The older man said he told his wife to drive off. The younger man then reportedly got into his pickup truck and drove in reverse, striking the older man in the knee area.

The pickup driver reportedly pulled forward then reversed a second time. The older man told police he jumped up on the truck's bumper to avoid being hit a second time. The driver then reportedly accelerated up and over the curb causing him to fall into the rear of the truck's cab.

The man said he was thrown up and down in the back of the truck but managed to jump out when the driver turned down a cul de sac.

He said he then spotted his wife, and the truck drove off.

Police said the man who reported the incident sustained a bruised knee and several fractured ribs.

The truck driver was arrested yesterday on suspicion of second-degree assault and kidnapping.

Boys arrested, release in air gun incident

Two 11-year-old Pearl City boys were arrested yesterday morning after a third boy, also 11, told police the two classmates shot an "air soft" gun at him on the way to school. The boys were arrested at 7:30 a.m. on suspicion of third-degree assault and harassment and were later released without charges to their parents.

The other boy was not injured.