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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Monday, August 17, 2009

Suspect arrested after rash of car break-ins in Mililani Mauka


Advertiser Staff

A police officer apparently solved a one-man crime spree when he stopped to help a stalled motorist Saturday morning in Mililani.

Police said the officer spotted the stalled car about 7 a.m. near the intersection of Meheula Parkway and Ainamakua Drive in the Mililani Mauka area.
The officer checked on the car, learned it had been reported stolen earlier this month in Kaneohe and had license plates attached to it that tracked to a different vehicle.
At the same time the officer was checking on the car, a number of Mililani Mauka residents were calling police to report their cars had been broken into.
The officer realized that a number of the items the residents reported as being stolen from them were identical to some of the goods that were in plain sight in the stalled vehicle, police said.
Some of the residents who filed break-in reports were taken to the stalled car’s location and identified items in the car as theirs, police said.
Police arrested Jason A. Hensley, of no local address, in connection with the break-ins.
Hensley was charged yesterday with 15 counts of unlawful entry into a motor vehicle and one count of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.
Police said the stolen car was recovered and the remaining items inside it were taken to the Wahiawa police substation.
Police were able to locate some of the probable owners, and as more Mililani residents noticed throughout the day that their cars had been broken into and called police, they were asked to come to the Wahiawa station to see if the could identify any of the seized items.
Bail for Hensley was set at $50,000.