Hawai‘i Island police have charged 37-year-old Zachary Babosh of Volcano with assault in the first degree after an early morning assault.

On the morning of April 10, 2021, police responded to a call at Hilo Medical Center where a 75-year-old woman with facial fractures and multiple injuries said she had been asaulted in the parking lot of a sports bar on the 300 block of Hualani Street in Hilo. A subsequent police investigation revealed that a male party struck her face repeatedly in the parking lot area.

Police identified the suspect as Zachary Babosh.  After the incident Babosh fled Hawaiʻi County and travelled to Oʻahu before he could be arrested.

Hawai‘i Island police obtained an arrest warrant for Babosh and collaborated with the United States Marshals Service and Honolulu Police Department after developing information that Babosh was possibly staying in the Waikiki area. Babosh was located at a hotel on Kanekapolei Street in Honolulu, where he was taken into police custody.

Staff from the Hawai‘i County Office of the Prosecuting Attorney extradited Babosh back to Hilo where he was charged with assault in the first degree on Wednesday, April 21, 2021.  His bail was set at $100,000.

Photo Courtesy of Hawaiʻi County Police Department