A police officer may have solved a rash of car break-ins 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 Kane'ohe and had license plates attached to it that belong to a different vehicle.

As 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 stolen from them were identical to some of the goods that were in plain sight in the stalled vehicle, police said.

Police arrested Jason A. Hensley, of no local address, in connection with the break-ins. Hensley was charged Sunday with 15 counts of unlawful entry into a motor vehicle and one count of unauthorized control of a vehicle.