An Oahu grand jury this week indicted a 35-year-old career criminal on 15 charges stemming from a home invasion robbery last week that ended when the suspect was shot by officers after allegedly trying to run them over in a stolen truck.
Amery Kahale-Sugimura was out on bail Oct. 29 when he allegedly assaulted a 68-year-old Aiea resident and tried to flee in the resident’s truck, striking two officers.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the indictment returned Wednesday included one count each of first-degree burglary and unauthorized entry into a dwelling; two counts each of auto theft, robbery, first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer, second-degree assault and drug charges; and three counts of first-degree terroristic threatening.
Kahale-Sugimura, who uses the alias Jon Edward Dudoit and the nickname "Ginger Bread Man," is being held in Oahu Community Correctional Center on $250,000 bail, pending arraignment Tuesday.
At the time of the home invasion, Kahale-Sugimura was free on $40,000 bail awaiting a Nov. 27 trial in an auto theft case after a similar altercation with police in September, allegedly involving the theft of a motorcycle.
Last week police spotted Kahale-Sugimura at a Heleconia Place house in Aiea at 3:31 p.m. He fled on a stolen motorcycle, crashed it at Alvah Scott Elementary School and then ran to a nearby house on Moanalua Road, police said.
Kahale-Sugimura hit a resident of the house in the head, police said. As officers surrounded the house, Kahale-Sugimura jumped into the resident’s pickup truck.
He quickly reversed, accelerating, and drove toward several officers. He hit two, who were not seriously injured, police said.
Four officers fired several shots, and Kahale-Sugimura was wounded multiple times, police said.
He was taken in serious but stable condition to a hospital where he remained briefly.
He initially was arrested on suspicion of five counts of first-degree attempted murder but was never charged with those counts.
Kahale-Sugimura has an extensive juvenile record that has been sealed by Family Court. As an adult he has been convicted of 14 felonies, mostly robbery and property crimes. His latest conviction was in 1997, for robbery. He was paroled, but following parole violations was returned to custody in 2008. He was paroled again a year later, then discharged in 2012.