A 31-year-old Ahuimanu man was arrested early yesterday morning as a suspect in a truck break-in in Makiki.

A 42-year-old man told police he was awakened about 3:30 a.m. by a loud noise in the parking lot of his apartment building. He said he looked out the window and saw a man breaking into his truck.

Police said patrol officers were sent to the area and saw a man carrying a backpack through the parking lot. They said the man took off running when officers approached, but was apprehended nearby at the corner of Akala Lane and King Street.

The officers said the man who reported the incident identified the suspect as the one who broke into the truck and also identified some of the items found in the backpack as belonging to him.

The suspect denied the backpack was his, and a search of the pack turned up a glass pipe commonly used to smoke methamphetamine, a small plastic bag containing a white crystal substance resembling meth and a counterfeit $100 bill, police said.

The man caught carrying the backpack was arrested on suspicion of unlawful entry into a motor vehicle, third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug, possession of drug paraphernalia and first-degree forgery.