Posted at 6:57 p.m., Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Escapee captured on Big Island
Advertiser Staff
HILO, Hawai'i — The last of three men who escaped from Hawai'i Community Correctional Center last month was arrested by Big Island police today near a baseball park in Kaiwiki.Kole Race-Joaquin, 23, had evaded police for a month after his escape on Oct. 2.
Police said Race-Joaquin was seen in a vehicle near Papa'ikou headed south toward Hilo on Hawai'i Belt Road shortly before 10 a.m.
Officers tried to stop the vehicle near Wainaku. But the vehicle continued into Wainaku and then to Kaiwiki, where it stopped near the entrance to the baseball park.
Race-Joaquin tried to run, but was quickly captured.
