A young Honolulu officer today pleaded no contest today to falsifying a police report.

The 25-year-old arrested a homeless man at Queen’s Surf Beach Park last April on suspicion of littering and for a contempt warrant. Prosecutors say Arita wrote in his official report that a city parks worker had approached him, and told him that the suspect was littering and being disorderly.

But his police partner disputed that, and told a supervisor that Arita had no cause to approach the homeless man and was overbearing toward him.

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