Hawai‘i Island police arrested and charged 30-year-old Terran Kaleiwahea Jr., of Mountain View with various property and drug-related offenses after fleeing from police. On Tuesday, May 30, Kona patrol officers responded to a report of a reckless driver traveling south on Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway, near Kaiminani Drive in Kailua-Kona and observed the vehicle traveling at high speed, weaving in and out of traffic. Officers later located the unoccupied parked vehicle off Hina Lani Street when they observed a male party in the distance running in thick brush. Later, Police Dispatch received a distress call from a man reporting he was lost in the brush near Hina Lani Street. Responding officers began canvassing the area and located the man, later identified as Terran Kaleiwahea Jr.,on Ulu Wini Place and escorted him out of the bushes. HFD medics then tended to him.
After identifying Kaleiwahea Jr., it was determined that he had outstanding warrants for his arrest, as well as an all-points bulletin for theft and property offenses. He was also identified as matching the description of the reckless driver suspect previously seen fleeing into the brush earlier that evening. Area II Criminal Investigation Section detectives continued the investigations involving Kaleiwahea and after conferring with the County Prosecutor’s Office charged him with the following offenses: • Unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle• First-degree theft• Resisting an order to stop Kaleiwahea Jr. was also arrested and charged on the strength of three outstanding informational charging warrants for third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug and an outstanding warrant for failure to appear. His total bail was set at $45,300.
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