Updated at 10:01 p.m., Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Suspects arrested after ramming police car in Waipahu
By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer
The ramming took place in the drive-through lane of a fast-food restaurant on Moloalo Street at 3:20 p.m. as Pearl City Crime Reduction Unit officers closed in to arrest the pair.
The suspect driver reversed his car into the police car and then sped off, hopping a curb and hitting a parked vehicle in the process.
The two men in the stolen car, both 24, abandoned the vehicle at Aniani Place about a mile away from the fast-food restaurant. Witnesses directed police to apartments the suspects fled to.
The pair, who CRU officers say have been active in breaking into vehicles in the area, were arrested at about 3:30 p.m. for auto theft.
No one was injured in the ramming.
They were booked on additional counts of unauthorized possession of confidential personal information, third-degree promotion of dangerous drugs and first-degree criminal property damages at 8:30 p.m. after a warrant search of the car.
The CRU officers had located the stolen vehicle and watched as the two men entered the park car and drove off. Police followed them to the fast-food restaurant.
