POLICE BEAT
Boy, 13, shoots girls with pellets
Advertiser Staff
A 13-year-old boy who is a student at Waimanalo Elementary School was arrested there Wednesday after he allegedly used an air soft pellet gun to shoot two girls, ages 11 and 12, in the buttocks.
Police said the boy pulled out the gun on the school playground about 9:50 a.m. and shot the two girls, who are also students at the school. The injuries were not serious.
School authorities were notified and called police, who went to the school and arrested the boy on suspicion of third-degree assault.
Air soft guns are made to look like real weapons but fire plastic BBs.
HIT-RUN VEHICLE SOUGHT BY POLICE
CrimeStoppers is seeking the public's help in locating the vehicle involved in a hit-and-run accident involving a bicyclist on Nimitz Highway early Monday morning.
The bicyclist was riding westbound on Nimitz Highway near Pacific Street and was hit by a vehicle, which then left the scene of the accident, police said. Police believe the vehicle involved in the incident is missing its passenger-side mirror and it is a Chevy, or GMC pickup truck, sport utility vehicle or minivan. Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.
OFFICER ASSAULTED IN WAIMANALO
Police arrested a 23-year-old Waimanalo man Wednesday after he allegedly assaulted a patrol officer who had gone to investigate a report of a loud argument.
Several officers arrived about 4 p.m. and had detained the suspect for questioning when he attacked one of the officers without warning or provocation, police said.
The other officers subdued and arrested the suspect, and the injured officer was taken to Castle Medical Center, where he was treated for unspecified minor injuries and released.
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault against a police officer.
MAN, 23, ARRESTED IN SEX ASSAULT CASE
A 23-year-old man was arrested Wednesday as a suspect in a sexual assault case alleged to have occurred Sunday.
A 22-year-old woman told police the suspect assaulted her at a home in Kaimuki about 7 a.m.
Police classified the case as a second-degree sexual assault.
