Hawaiʻi Police Department
Criminal Investigations Section, Area I
Lieutenant Gregory Esteban
Phone: 961-2252
Report No. C13026401
Kevin Kuhia
Media Release (update)
Hawaiʻi Island police have charged the man who was arrested last week in connection with a report of gunshots in Hilo on September 30.
At 2:25 p.m. Saturday (October5), 34-year-old Kevin Kuhia, who has no permanent address, was charged with first-degree reckless endangering, unauthorized control of a motor vehicle, ownership of a firearm prohibited and place to keep a firearm prohibited. His bail was set at $70,000.
He was held at the Hilo police cellblock until his initial court appearance on Monday (October 7).
On the afternoon of September 30, Hilo patrol officers responded to a report that a man had fired several rounds from a red Mazda Miata in front of a house on Elama Street in the Panaʻewa area.
On Thursday (October3), police located the car and Kuhia in a vacant lot on Lehua Street in the Fern Acres subdivision in Puna. Kuhia was arrested and taken into custody while detectives continued the investigation.
