A patrol officer stopped a light-green Honda with a defective headlight about 3:10 a.m. and was preparing to write out a traffic citation when he learned the car had been reported stolen.

About that time, a women driving a black Honda pulled up next to the officer, stopped in the middle of the street and told the officer she had the driver's license for the woman behind the wheel of the green Honda, police said.

The patrol officer then reportedly ordered the woman driving the black Honda to pull over to the side of the street. At that point, a second police officer who was sent to the scene to help out approached the black Honda and noticed its ignition had been "punched," police said.

The officer checked with the owner of the black Honda and found it, too, had been stolen but not yet reported.

Both of the women — one of them 30 years old with no local address and the other, 27 years old from the Lualualei area of the Wai'anae Coast — were then arrested on suspicion of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.

Pregnant woman reports kidnapping, beating

Police arrested a 25-year-old Pearl Harbor woman after another woman, also 25, told police she was kidnapped yesterday afternoon by her ex-boyfriend's current girlfriend and two men.

The woman who filed the complaint said the two men pulled her into a van about 2:45 p.m. in the Salt Lake area. She said the van was white and that its windows had been painted over.

The woman, who said she is eight months pregnant, was reportedly kept inside the van until about 3:30 p.m. while the two men kicked her and stood on her stomach several times.

She said one of the men also threatened her with a handgun and that the two men and the woman threatened to shoot her.

The woman called police after she was released from the van.

Police arrested the ex-boyfriend's current girlfriend at about 9:15 last night on suspicion of kidnapping, first-degree terroristic threatening and a temporary restraining order violation. The two men who allegedly took part in the abduction and beating remained at large.

Man arrested in connection to report of stolen car

A 48-year-old man was arrested on Kapi'olani Boulevard near Ala Moana Center about 3 this morning after police found the man driving a car that had been reported stolen.

Police said a patrol officer pulled the man over for a traffic violation and learned the car's owner, a 57-year-old man, had reported it stolen.