A Kona grand jury indicted 32 year-old Kamren Forest Adams of Ocean View in relation to an incident at an Ocean View Estates subdivision residence.

On May 30,Ka‘u patrol officers arrested Adams on a $70,000.00 indictment warrant.
He appeared in Kona Circuit Court where his bail was maintained at $70,000.00 and he was ordered to appear on August 1 or return on examiners’ reports.

Adams was originally charged by way of Complaint and made his initial appearance in
Kona District Court on May 14 where over Prosecutors’ objections, the Court gave Adams
supervised release. The Court suspended the proceedings for Adam’s examination as to
fitness and penal responsibility, appointed examiners, and ordered that Adam’s return for a
hearing on the return of the examiners’ reports.

On May 21, 2024, Prosecutors presented the case before the Kona grand jury, obtained a true bill, and the issuance of the $70,000.00 warrant.

Adams is charged with Burglary in the First Degree (enter or remain unlawfully in a building with intent to commit terroristic threatening and/or assault and disregarded the risk that the building was the dwelling of another) and Terroristic Threatening in the First Degree (with the use of a simulated firearm). Burglary in the First Degree is a class B felony offense which carries a penalty of either a ten-year prison term or four years probation and up to eighteen months in jail. Terroristic Threatening in the First Degree is a class C felony offense which carries either a penalty of a five-year prison term or four years probation and up to twelve months in jail.

The charges are merely allegations, and the Defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

The case is being prosecuted by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Chase Murray.

 

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