MEDIA RELEASE
Police have charged the man who was arrested last week in connection with a report of gunshots in Hilo on Sept. 30.
At 2:25 p.m. Saturday (Oct. 5), 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 the afternoon of Sept. 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 Panaewa area.
On Thursday (Oct. 3), 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.
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