Big Island police have a man in custody in connection with a report of gunshots in Hilo on Monday afternoon.
Big Island police have a man in custody in connection with a report of gunshots in Hilo on Monday afternoon.
At 1:54 p.m. Monday, Hilo patrol officers responded to a report that a man had fired several rounds from a red Mazda Miata in front of a house on Elama Street in the Panaewa area.
On Thursday, police found the car and the driver in a vacant lot on Lehua Street in the Fern Acres subdivision in Puna. The 34-year-old man, who has no permanent address, was arrested on suspicion of reckless endangering. He is being held at the Hilo police cellblock while detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigations Section continue the investigation.