Police said a patrol officer spotted the girl and a man, who appeared to be in his early 20s, standing next to car when he was patrolling the area about 12:05 a.m.

The officer told the pair to leave since the park was closed for the evening. He then drove off after making a mental note of the car's license plate number.

Moments later, the officer learned a 22-year-old woman had filed an earlier complaint saying the car had been stolen.

The officer then turned around to go back to the park and reportedly saw the car take off from the parking area and crash into a concrete pillar.

The officer arrested the girl behind the wheel on suspicion of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.

The man who was in the car when it crashed ran away, police said.

There were no injuries.

Wife arrested in bike-cable choking incident

A 42-year-old woman was arrested yesterday afternoon after she allegedly tried to choke her 54-year-old husband at the couple's apartment in Kalihi.

The husband told police his wife tried to choke him with a cable bicycle locking device.

Police said the husband also had visible injuries from having been kicked and scratched.

Police were called to the couple's Linapuni Street apartment and arrested the wife on suspicion of abuse of a family or household member.

Arrest in moped theft incident

A 36-year-old man was arrested on Ala Wai Boulevard in Waikiki yesterday after a 20-year-old man reported seeing the older man riding a moped that had been stolen from him.

The younger man told police that he informed the older man that he was riding a stolen moped.

When the moped owner used a cell phone to report the incident, the man riding the moped took the cell phone away, broke it and then stuffed the phone of the pocket of the man who was trying to make the 911 call, police said.

Police arrived on the scene and arrested the older man on suspicion of second-degree theft.

Nine arrests tied to driving impaired by alcohol or drugs

Eight men and a woman were arrested between 8 p.m. yesterday and 3 a.m. today for driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, police records show.

The men ranged in age from 24 to 56. The woman was 49 years old.

Six of the arrests took place in the central Honolulu area between Middle and Pi'ikoi streets.

Traffic violation prompts car theft arrest

Police arrested an 18-year-old man in Kane'ohe last night after they allegedly found him driving a car that had been reported stolen.

Police said a patrol officer saw a driver commit a traffic violation about 8 p.m. near the corner of Kawa and Kahuhipa streets.

They said the officer checked the car's license plates and learned the car had been reported stolen.

The officer then ordered the driver to pull over and arrested him on suspicion of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.

Man arrested in tie to stolen car incident

A 26-year-old man was arrested in Makiki yesterday after he was found driving a car that had been reported stolen from a 59-year-old woman.