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The Honolulu Advertiser
Updated at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Oregon man facing negligent injury charge

By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer

Hawaii news photo - The Honolulu Advertiser

Shannon Ikaika Siu

Courtesy Hawai‘i Criminal Justice Data Center

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A 28-year-old man who waived extradition from Oregon was formally charged today with first-degree negligent injury stemming from a pickup truck crash last year on O'ahu.

Shannon Ikaika Siu, who listed a Hillsboro, Ore., address at his 12:45 p.m. booking, is being held overnight at the main police station cellblock in lieu of $25,000 pending his arraignment tomorrow at Circuit Court.

Siu allegedly fell asleep while driving a pickup truck that crashed on Aug. 12, 2007. A male passenger suffered brain damage as a result of the crash, according to prosecutors. Other details about the crash were unavailable.

Prosecutors charged Siu by information on April 23 of this year and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Siu waived extradition and willingly returned to Honolulu. He turned himself in at the main police station today.

Siu has prior convictions for petty misdemeanor third-degree assault (April 2005), and third-degree assault and second-degree terroristic threatening (June 2000), both misdemeanors.

Reach Rod Ohira at rohira@honoluluadvertiser.com.