Honolulu police arrested a 37-year-old Ewa Beach man who allegedly kidnapped a 4-year-old girl who was playing with her brother in their backyard yesterday afternoon.

Police say the girl’s brother saw the suspect reach over a chain-link fence and take her from the yard at an Ewa Beach home at about 5:30 p.m.

The girl’s father told his friends what happened and one of them saw the suspect and the girl inside a nearby store.

Police arrested the suspect at a nearby Fort Weaver Road address  at 7 p.m. on suspicion of kidnapping.