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Updated at 1:24 p.m., Tuesday, March 20, 2007

POLICE BEAT
Man arrested after slipping from custody

Advertiser Staff

A 21-year-old man who was arrested Saturday but escaped turned himself into police last night.

On Saturday at 12:35 a.m. the man was arrested on two outstanding warrants. While patrol officers were nearby completing their investigation, the man managed to slip out of his handcuffs and climb through the back window of the patrol car he was sitting in.

Last night at 11 p.m. the man turned himself into police at the Kapolei police station.

He was arrested on suspicion of second-degree escape.

Husband arrested in apartment break-in incident

A man on the verge of divorcing his wife broke into her Kalihi apartment and made himself at home yesterday.

The 43-year-old man entered the home of his 36-year-old wife at 11:30 p.m. last night despite a restraining order prohibiting him from contacting his wife or going near her.

The man had taken a shower, got dressed and started to make himself something to eat when his wife came home and repeatedly ordered him out of the house. An argument then broke out and the man reportedly threatened his wife before leaving the apartment.

Responding patrol officers found the man in the area of the apartment and arrested him on suspicion of first-degree burglary.

Boyfriend arrested in car-related robbery incident

A 28-year-old man was arrested yesterday after he allegedly punched and choked his girlfriend and took her car, police said.

At about 8 p.m. the man borrowed his girlfriend's car. Later that evening, the woman, 56, reportedly spotted the man parked at a Makaha beach park with another woman. She reportedly walked up to the car, removed the keys from the ignition and walked away.

The man then got out of the car and demanded that she give him the keys. The woman reportedly refused and an argument ensued.

During the argument the man punched the woman in the face repeatedly and started to choke her, police said. She then dropped the keys and the man and the other woman drove off.

The woman then called police and told them where the man lives. Patrol officers arrested the man on suspicion of robbery in the second degree.