Hawaii County police charged a 29-year-old Hilo man in connection with a bomb threat Thursday at a bank in a Hilo supermarket.

Russell Monlux was charged with two counts of second-degree terroristic threatening. Police said the reason for the two counts was that he threatened the bank and the supermarket in which it was located. His bail was set at $4,000.

His initial court appearance is scheduled for Monday.

Police said a customer passed a handwritten bomb threat note shortly before noon to a teller at the bank in a supermarket on the 300 block of Makaala Street.

The store was evacuated as a precaution, police said.

Witnesses to car tiff sought

Police are looking for witnesses to a dispute between people in two cars that escalated while both vehicles were traveling on Hilo roads.

The incident began Tuesday afternoon in the parking lot of a store on Makaala Street. A Puna woman reported she and her passengers were driving through the lot when they were threatened by a male driver and three female passengers in a gray Mazda sedan. The woman drove away in a black 2005 Chrysler 300, and the dispute continued on Pohaku Street at Railroad Avenue with a woman in the Mazda allegedly throwing a large rock that struck the Chrysler at about 5 p.m. Tuesday. The Mazda left the scene.

Police opened a terroristic threatening and criminal property damage investigation.

Police ask anyone who saw the incident to call police at 935-3311, officer Marcos Santos at 961-3311 or CrimeStoppers at 961-8300.