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Updated at 1:11 p.m., Tuesday, November 28, 2006

POLICE BEAT
Four arrested in car break-ins

Advertiser Staff

Two men and two women were arrested yesterday as suspects in car break-ins at a scenic lookout point in East O'ahu.

Two groups of tourists called police about 3 p.m. to report that their vehicles had been broken into.

Police were at a second lookout conducting an unrelated investigation when they spotted a car carrying the four suspects they reported as acting suspiciously.

Officers at the second lookout were then informed of the break-ins at the other lookout and detained the four suspects, police said.

The tourists at the first lookout were brought to the second lookout and identified items inside the suspects' car that they said were taken from them.

Police then arrested two men, ages 18 and 40, and two women, ages 18 and 43, on suspicion of unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle, second-degree theft and unauthorized possession of confidential personal information.

Man arrested in tie to forged money orders

A 40-year-old man was arrested in Pearl City last night for allegedly using forged money orders to buy a car from a 36-year-old man.

The younger man told police he sold the car Oct. 16 but was contacted by his bank a couple of weeks later and told that the money orders were forged.

The former owner saw his car and the man who "bought" it driving through Pearl City about 7:15 p.m., police said. Officers were sent to the scene and arrested the man driving the car on suspicion of second-degree forgery and second-degree theft.

Police took possession of the car in question at the time the arrest was made.