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09-11-15 Hilo Kamehameha statue spear theft (update No. 3)

Hawaiʻi Police Department
Criminal Investigations Section, Area I
Lieutenant Gregory Esteban
Phone: 961-2252
Report No. C15026260

Media Release (update No. 2)

After conferring with prosecutors, Hawaiʻi Island police have charged a former Oahu man in connection with a spear that was stolen from the King Kamehameha statue in Hilo on Tuesday (September 8).

At 1:20 p.m. Friday (September 11), 31-year-old William Roy Carroll III, who has no permanent address, was charged with second-degree theft, third-degree theft and second-degree criminal property damage. His bail was set at $11,000.

He remains the Hilo police cellblock pending his initial court appearance scheduled for Monday.