Mountain View multiple offender returns to jail

Hawaii island police charged a Mountain View main with multiple crimes Friday, about a week after he was released from jail after pleading guilty to five earlier felony offenses.

Kahekili Krause, 19, was charged by the Hawaii Police Department with unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle, third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug, prohibited acts related to drug paraphernalia, second-degree unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle, second-degree criminal trespass and two counts of habitual property crimes.

Police said Krause had just been released from jail on Jan. 25 when these new charges surfaced. The latest charges stemmed from a Wednesday incident when Hawaii island police responded to a report of a man unconscious in the driver’s seat of a pickup truck on the roadway in the Hawaiian Acres Subdivision in Puna. Officers later arrested Krause at 12:32 p.m. that day after discovering that the truck had been stolen from a business in the Shipman Industrial Park the previous weekend. Krause also was arrested in connection to a Feb. 3 trespassing incident at a Kurtistown home.

Police said Krause was taken to the Hilo cellblock while investigators continued the investigation. While searching the stolen truck, police said they recovered two “ice” pipes and other evidence.

Krause, whose bail was set at $63,000, is being held at the Hilo cell block. He is slated to appear Monday in District Court.