Police said a patrol officer felt the car was suspicious and ran a check on it's license plate number, which turned out to be on the stolen car list.

The driver was then arrested on suspicion of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.

Suspect arrested in car break-ins

Police arrested a 19-year-old man this morning in Waipahu after receiving a report of a car break-in in progress.

They said beat officers were sent to the scene and saw a man sitting in a car. The man jumped out an ran when he saw the officers approaching in their cars, police said.

While the officers were examining the car the man was spotted in, they came across a second car they found with its motor running and with a number of items strewn around inside the car, police said.

They said the man who had run away when the officers rolled up on the scene reappeared and asked what the officers were looking for inside his car.

Meanwhile, the officers found two more cars nearby that appeared to have had their windows shattered.

Owners of three different cars were contacted and identified as their own the items that were found inside the car that police found with its motor running.

At that point the officers arrested the man who asked what they were doing on suspicion three counts of unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle.

Robbery suspect remains at large

Police this morning arrested a 29-year-old man and were searching for a second man as suspects in a strong-arm robbery reported by a 30-year-old man.

The man who filed the robbery complaint said he was walking about 1:30 a.m. near Kuhio and Liliuokalani avenues when the two men approached and demanded his backpack.

Police said the man reported seeing one of the two men about two hours later on Kuhio Avenue and called 911.

Police said he pointed out the man to arriving officers, who then arrested the alleged thief on suspicion of second-degree robbery.