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Updated at 8:23 p.m., Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Waipahu man charged with ramming police car

By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer

Prosecutors today charged a Waipahu man with multiple felony offenses, including auto theft and first-degree criminal property damage, stemming from the ramming of police vehicle yesterday in Waipahu.

Charges, meanwhile, are still pending against two other auto-theft suspects in connection with another case involving the ramming of a police vehicle in Moi'ili'ili.

Victor Palani Borling, 24, of Aniani Place in Waipahu, was charged today with unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle, second-degree criminal property damage, possession of a replica gun, third-degree promotion of dangerous drugs, unauthorized possession of confidential personal information, second-degree theft, and petty misdemeanor reckless driving.

Borling is being held in lieu of $30,000 bail.

Joshua R. Pires, 24, a passenger in the stolen car allegedly driven by Borling, is being held only on two outstanding warrants totalling $7,000.

Borling allegedly reversed a stolen car into a police vehicle while in the drive-through lane of a fast-food restaurant on Moloalo Street in Waipahu as Pearl City Crime Reduction Unit officers moved in for an arrest.

Borling then drove off, hopped a curb, struck a parked vehicle and later abandoned the stolen car, police said. He was arrested in his Aniani Place apartment about 10 minutes after the ramming incident.

Pires was arrested in the 94-300 block of Pupukupa Street at about the same time.

The ramming in Mo'ili'ili happened at 5:26 p.m. after a police patrol lieutenant spotted a stolen airport rental car being driven on the grassy area of a public park.

The stolen car fled from the park area but was stopped nearby. The driver, a 40-year-old felon with seven prior convictions, allegedly rammed a patrol car while driving off.

Police stopped the car again, and its three occupants fled on foot.

The driver was arrested at McCully and Young streets while the two male passengers were arrested on South Beretania Street.

All three were in custody by 6 p.m.

Auto theft and first-degree criminal property damage are pending against 40-year-old Sootau "Soo" Siolosega Esera, who is being held on a $20,000 parole revocation warrant.

A male passenger, 30, was booked for felony unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle, third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Prosecutors charged the third man in the car, 49-year-old Vernon Ah Ching, 49, with misdemeanor unauthorized entry into a vehicle and requested bail of $2,000.

No injuries were reported in either ramming case.