Ocean View man arrested after being found in neighbor’s house 09-22-14

Hawaiʻi Police Department
Criminal Investigations Section, Area II
Lieutenant Gerald Wike
Phone: 326-4646, Ext. 266
Report No. C14025048

 

 

Media Release

The discovery of an intruder in a neighbor’s house has led to his arrest for the break-in and for commercial promotion of marijuana.

Kaʻū Patrol officers responded to a 2:51 p.m. report Saturday (September 20) at a home on Lehua Lane near Coral Parkway. A 42-year-old woman reported that when she arrived home she found a man in her house whom she recognized as someone who lived in the area. The intruder fled over a fence, causing damage to the fence.

Police found items belonging to the victim piled inside the house next to the front door. They determined that the intruder had taken a shower in the victim’s house and consumed alcohol belonging to the victim. They also determined that the intruder had entered the victim’s car parked in the garage and stolen the car keys.

At 4:40 p.m., officers located the suspect, 49-year-old Jeb Stewart Thurlby, and arrested him on his nearby property.  Arresting officers observed marijuana plants growing on the property. Thurlby was taken to the Kona police cellblock while detectives from the Area II Criminal Investigations Section and Vice Section continued the investigation.

Vice officers served a search warrant on Thurlby’s property Sunday (September 21) and recovered 112 marijuana plants ranging in height from seedlings to 4-feet tall.

Sunday afternoon (September 21), Thurlby was charged with commercial promotion of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. His bail was set at $20,000. He was held at the cellblock until his initial court appearance on the drug charges Monday (September 22).

Monday morning, Thurlby was charged with the additional offenses of burglary, unauthorized entry of a motor vehicle and criminal property damage. His bail on those offenses was set at $7,250. After his court hearing on the drug charges, he was returned to the cellblock until his initial court appearance Tuesday (September 23) for the burglary related offenses.


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