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Big Island police seek escapee
NA'ALEHU, Hawai'i — Big Island police are looking for a 25-year-old man who escaped from police custody Wednesday.
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Police said Nathaniel Davis, of Na'alehu, escaped from police in the Manuka State Park area of Ka'u.
He is wanted on a warrant for revocation of parole, and is being sought in connection with other pending investigations, police said.
Davis is 6 feet tall, weighs about 140 pounds and has short brown hair and brown eyes. He also has numerous tattoos.
Police said Davis may still be in the Ka'u District. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call Sgt. James Gusman of the Ka'u Patrol at (808) 939-2520, or the police nonemergency number at (808) 935-3311.
Papakolea man dies in crash
A 50-year-old Papakolea man was killed Wednesday night when his pickup truck crashed into a utility pole and wall on Likelike Highway north of Kalihi Street.
Witnesses told vehicular homicide investigators that the man, identified yesterday by the medical examiner's office as Eisen Kahue, was slumped over the steering wheel of his northbound 1991 GMC pickup truck when it suddenly accelerated, crossed the median and struck the utility pole and wall at 6:25 p.m.
Kahue was pronounced dead on arrival at The Queen's Medical Center.
Pair arrested in robbery-kidnapping
A 24-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday on Kahawai Street on suspicion of robbing and kidnapping an 18-year-old man in April.
Police also arrested an 18-year-old man awaiting trial at O'ahu Community Correctional Center in connection with the same case. Both the man and woman were booked for first-degree robbery and kidnapping.
They allegedly forced their way into a vehicle at 11:30 p.m. on April 8 at Alu Street and Likelike Highway and forced the victim to drive them to an undisclosed location where the alleged robbery took place.
2 men detained in burglaries
Police Wednesday arrested two men, ages 23 and 22, in Pearl City on suspicion of breaking into a Kailua home.
Windward O'ahu burglary zone detective John McCarthy said the two men are prime suspects in a series of recent home burglaries and auto thefts in Windward O'ahu, including one Friday and another Wednesday.
The police helicopter tracked the men as they drove from the intersection of Pali and Kamehameha highways to H-3 to Waikele and back toward Pearl City, where they became stuck in traffic.
The two men were arrested at 11:54 a.m. at the intersection of Kamehameha Highway and Ka'ahumanu Street.
Police will be seeking to charge the men on two counts of first-degree burglary, four counts of auto theft and first-degree criminal property damage for allegedly hitting a car Wednesday while trying to flee from police.
