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Posted at 11:11 a.m., Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Police Beat: Screwdriver car ignition leads to arrest

Advertiser Staff

Police arrested a 31-year-old man in Wai'anae last night after they found him driving a stolen car.

They had received an anonymous call from a woman about 11 p.m. who reported seeing three people driving around in a car that had a screwdriver in the ignition.

Responding police officers located the car, checked the license plate and confirmed it had been stolen. The driver was arrested on suspicion of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.

Police looking for victim and suspects in alleged abduction

Police this morning were looking for four men in their 20s who allegedly robbed and kidnapped a 34-year-old man early this morning in the Salt Lake area.

Police were told that the older man stopped his car in front of a home about 12:25 a.m. and spoke with two men woman when a second car, carrying four men, pulled in front of the first car and blocked it. Witnesses told police the four men then confronted the driver of the first car. They said the four men demanded money and that two of them got into the older man's car and began to search through it. They said the men pushed the driver into the passenger seat and drove off with him in the car.

The other two men went back to the car they arrived in and drove away, police said.

Police had not located the missing man nor either of the two cars as of mid-morning.

Man arrested in alleged diesel gas theft incident

Police arrested a 46-year-old man at Campbell Industrial Park early Sunday morning after they found him pumping diesel fuel from a stolen tanker truck.

An employee of Hawaii Logistic Services reported seeing the man drive off the company's lot with the tanker truck about 12:20 a.m. and followed the truck to another business property in the industrial park, police said.

Patrol officers arrived to find the man who allegedly took the truck pumping diesel fuel from it into a storage tank.

They arrested him on suspicion of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle and second-degree theft.