Car sped 81 mph before chase, documents say

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Sean Michael Shipe: The Marine was arrested Thursday on attempted murder counts but has yet to be charged

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LEILA FUJIMORI / LFUJIMORI@STARADVERTISER.COM
A man was arrested Thursday afternoon in Kailua after allegedly running a police motorcycle officer off the road at Kamehameha Highway and Kaneohe Bay Drive, according to police dispatch. The man's vehicle was stopped near Pali and Kamehameha highways about 12:45 p.m. Information was not available on whether the motorcycle officer was injured.

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Court documents filed in District Court against a 22-year-old Kaneohe Marine detail a 19-minute high-speed police chase last week.

Sean Michael Shipe is charged with first-degree terroristic threatening and first-degree criminal property damage. His bail was confirmed at $200,000 at his initial District Court hearing Monday. Shipe’s preliminary hearing will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Shipe was arrested Thursday on suspicion of two counts of first-degree attempted murder after he allegedly tried to ram two solo bike officers, injuring one of them. The charges were later reduced to terroristic threatening and property damage.

The 12-mile pursuit began near Windward Shopping Center in Kaneohe with a suspect in a Scion being pursued by two officers on motorcycles over Pali Highway and back, ending at the intersection near Hawaii Pacific University’s Hawaii Loa campus and the Pali Golf Course, where he hit a car.

Honolulu Police Department solo bike officer Brent Sylvester clocked Shipe in a gray Scion at 81 mph in a 45 mph zone at 12:45 p.m. westbound on the H-3 freeway east of the Kaneohe Bay Drive offramp, according to a police affidavit. The suspect took the Kamehameha Highway offramp with Sylvester following, and the Scion slid onto the grassy area of the offramp.

Police said Sylvester parked his motorcycle to the right of the Scion, and the suspect looked directly at the police officer before accelerating toward him and heading toward Kaneohe on Kamehameha Highway. The suspect tried to elude police by driving around the Windward Shopping Center parking lot twice, then the pursuit continued on Kamehameha Highway, passing the Pali Golf Course, where police said the vehicle was driven on the grass shoulder to pass vehicles.

On Pali Highway at Waokanaka Street and Nuuanu Pali Drive, the suspect tried unsuccessfully to make a left turn and hit a pole in the median.

As Sylvester approached the suspect’s car on the median, a second solo bike officer, identified only as M. Sylvester, parked behind Shipe on the driver’s side. The second police officer said in the police affidavit that he was about 5 feet behind the Scion.

"The vehicle’s reverse lights turned on and the vehicle quickly accelerated towards M. Sylvester (the second HPD officer), colliding into his police motorcycle," the police statement said. The second officer suffered minor injuries, and his motorcycle was damaged.

The suspect then sped off on Pali Highway toward Kailua, colliding with a green Toyota sedan at the Kamehameha Highway intersection at 1:04 p.m. He was arrested soon after.