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COURTESY HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT
This police mugshot shows Brandon Abiva,21, who is charged with first-degree terroristic threatening and first-degree reckless endangering.
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A preliminary hearing will be held Oct. 3 in Honolulu District Court for a 21-year-old Ewa Beach man charged with terroristic threatening following a road rage incident that began on the H-3 freeway and ended in Waimanalo last month.
Brandon Abiva entered a plea of not guilty Sept. 5 on charges of first-degree terroristic threatening and reckless endangering after he and two other motorcyclists allegedly cut off a female driver on the H-3 freeway Aug. 28. He is free after posting a $30,000 bond.
The female driver called two male relatives after she was cut off, police said. The woman kept the family members apprised of the motorcyclists’ location, and the relatives caught up with them in Waimanalo. The two male relatives got out of their vehicle and confronted the motorcyclists.
One relative, a 33-year-old man, began fighting with a suspect who allegedly pulled a handgun out of a backpack and threatened to shoot, police said. The 33-year-old jumped into a car driven by a 42-year-old man and fled.
The suspect fired at least two shots into the ground shortly after 4 p.m. along Kalanianaole Highway and fled on his motorcycle, police said.
The suspect was caught in traffic on Kalanianaole Highway near Keolu Drive in Enchanted Lake and tried to ride around the police cars, causing minor damage to two of them, police said. The suspect then ditched the motorcycle and fled on foot.
He was arrested and was identified by distinctive markings on his helmet. Police did not recover a gun.
Abiva is on probation following a second-degree robbery conviction in October 2011.