Police have charged a 26-year-old Hilo man for allegedly stealing a pickup truck that crashed Sunday morning in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. ADVERTISING Police have charged a 26-year-old Hilo man for allegedly stealing a pickup truck that crashed Sunday morning
Police have charged a 26-year-old Hilo man for allegedly stealing a pickup truck that crashed Sunday morning in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Hiram D.K. Kawelu was charged Wednesday with auto theft. His bail was set at $10,000 and he remains in police custody pending his initial court appearance scheduled for today.
His passenger, 22-year-old Cole Evans-Tanigawa of Hilo, was arrested on suspicion of unauthorized entry to a motor vehicle but was released pending further investigation.
Police say the pickup truck was reported stolen from Hilo on May 14. A generator, fishing poles with reels and a cooler were reported stolen from a campsite at South Point early Sunday morning. In addition, several vehicles were broken into at the entrance to Kawa Beach in Naalehu the same morning.
On Monday, federal authorities charged Kawelu with DUI, failure to maintain control of a vehicle and driving without a license. The feds charged Evans-Tanigawa with making a false statement to authorities.
