Posted at 12:41 p.m., Tuesday, September 19, 2006
All lanes reopened on Hale'iwa bypass
Advertiser Staff
All lanes of the Joseph P. Leong Highway, also known as the Haleiwa bypass road, were reopened to traffic at about 11:45 a.m. today.The road was closed after a woman called from a property in the area at 8:27 a.m. and told police a shot had been fired. Shortly after her call, another shot was fired, police said.
The shots apparently were fired from a piece of property at about the halfway point of the highway and about a mile mauka of it. The highway was closed down as a precaution.
Traffic was rerouted onto Kamehameha Highway through the Hale'iwa business district
The shots weren't believed to have been fired at anyone, police said. A 51-year-old man who had been running around the property with a backpack surrendered to police at 10:20 a.m. Police said he stepped out of the bushes on a pig farm to surrender.
He was taken to the Wahiawa police station and booked on first-degree reckless endangering.
Officers initially had been unable to pass the gate surrounding the home because several pit bulls were loose and roaming the property.
