Hawai’i Police Department
Kona Patrol
Officer Justin Gaspar
Phone: 326-4646, Ext. 253
November 29, 2010
Report No. C10032888
Media Release
Big Island police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who stole a truck in South Kona on Sunday (November 28).
Police received an 8:25 a.m. report that the pickup truck had just been taken from a driveway on Mamalahoa Highway.
Police recovered the truck a half hour later in Hōnaunau.
The truck was a white 2000 Toyota Tacoma pickup with aluminum pipe racks. When police found it, the racks had been removed and placed in the back.
The suspect was described as a man with dark skin wearing a long-sleeved camouflage jacket or shirt, a dark beanie and sunglasses.
Police ask that anyone who knows his identity or who saw someone removing pipe racks from a truck fitting that description call the Police Department’s non-emergency line at 935-3311.