Car theft suspect pursuit causes standstill
COURTESY DONNA L. CHING
Traffic came to a standstill for town-bound motorists on Kalanianaole Highway near Kalani High School after the suspect in a motor vehicle theft apparently crashed into at least two other moving vehicles while attempting to flee pursuing police late this morning.
No one was injured. A male juvenile was arrested at the scene, police said.
Initial reports suggest the suspect got caught up in traffic caused by a road construction project along Kalanianaole, and then began taking desperate measures, police said.
The center lanes of Kalanianaole westbound were closed at about 10:46 a.m. and reopened about two hours later.
East Honolulu Twitter users tweeted that not only was townbound traffic backed up all the way to Keahole Street, but that Waimanalo-bound traffic along Kalanianaole was backed up past Sandy’s.
East Honolulu City Councilman Trevor Ozawa was among those caught up in the traffic jam for more than an hour. As a result, an honorary certificate presentation he was scheduled to make at the Hawaii Scottish Festival at Ala Moana Park’s McCoy Pavilion had to be pushed back, he said.
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36 responses to “Car theft suspect pursuit causes standstill”
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Cut his legs off. No mercy.
Practicing your Christianity, Ern?
Or maybe your compassionate Buddhism?
No worry BigErn, Syrians on the way, we can convert to Islam, practice Shari’a law, beat our women, cut off fingers of theives, kill our dsughters because they refuse to marry husbands we pick…
Not every body in Hawaii are Christian. We don’t have to be according to the constitution of the United States….. Agree with you BigErn.
Think of all the “cell phone use while in a moving (however slowly) vehicle” tickets that went unissued! Punishment deferred is punishment denied.
I think they allow cell phone use under certain conditions.
This is where HPD has the descretion of applying “spirit of the law” not “letter of the law” for enforcement…good job East Honolulu HPD for not tagging people. At least not like a repeat when the last time when the zippmobile broke down.
It’s perfectly acceptable if reporting a serious accident or crime, or if trying to summon medical assistance in an emergency – certainly not for calling to tell your boss or your friends you’ll be late for a date or for chitchatting, texting or playing games to pass the time in traffic.
If no one was injured, why did HPD close a major highway and inconvenience thousands for 2 hours? To investigate a juvenile driving a stolen car? I mean this is just complete disregard for the people that pay their salaries. Absolutely no sense of urgency when it comes to minimizing the inconvenience to the public. People can understand when an accident results in serious injury or death but in this case they could have just pulled the 3 cars involved off to a side street and reopened the road right away.
Great job Kealoha, you definately exceed expectations.
Couldn’t have said it any better.
I agree, these guys are out of control with unnecessary road closures. Where is the mayor on this? How about Councilmember Ozawa? The police could keep one lane of traffic moving or contra-flow a lane over to the other side instead of just strut around and talk story with each other. You see them do this all the time. Show some respect for the people HPD, if you expect the people to respect you.
To “saywhatyouthink & DVM”: please don’t let your emotions cloud your common sense.
Hahahah…common sense…bahahahahahaha. None of that here.
Ozawa was stuck in traffic.
Word is the vehicle had boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts inside. Once the police found out they called all their fellow officers to enjoy the free food.
Waited a long time to use that one huh. Nothing more clever?
HPD puts their lives on the line for you every day and all you can do is complain about the traffic? Really?
Right? Well said, 808!
Next time, just let em go…smooth flow of morning traffic is more important..
F that, good job HPD. We don’t his kind in our society. Get rid of the trash.
not really, if Juv. IF suspect in attempt to escape police collided with each car intentionally, could become case of attrmpted murder on each driver and passenger in each car. Not that simple of a case. Police have an obligation to fully investigate to the highest level…..attrmpted murder. Lawyers know this and a s… Load of them live on your side of the Island. Look Ozawa is one and as an officer of the court, he knows this.
If this occurred in front of Kalani High, how did it cause Waimanalo-bound traffic to be backed up past Sandy’s?
Probably because of road construction work combined with HPD shutting down town bound lanes messed up traffic in BOTH directions. Road construction on major highways should only be done late at night but union overtime rules and homes built so close to the roadways make night road work rare on Oahu. On the mainland and in foreign countries it is opposite and almost all work is done late at night to minimize disruption of heavy daytime traffic.
Right and people living on the East side are constant complainers on loud noise complaints at night… I know use to work our there.
Clueless replies. That’s an obvious error in the article. There’s no way a traffic stop in front of Kalani HS could cause “Waimanalo-bound” traffic to back up “past Sandy”. They’re ten miles apart and traffic wouldn’t back up that direction.
Honolulu-bound, yeah (and if so, what a huge mess!) Or if this happened by Sea Life Park like Bucky Lake, yeah.
Pull the trigger next time.
Put a round in the kid. Teach him a lesson.
Let me guess: Drumpf voters, amirite?
Throw the book at him. Car thieves get away with to much too often.
thats a pretty intense picture. the officer means business young boy. good thing you listened.
Good firearm technique too. Finger off the trigger. His cover guy looks like he is moving to his right to open up his angle.
or beat the s… out of him then turn him over to his parents and if father complained, beat him too…for not raising his kid right.
You remind me of a very dear friend of mine who worked out there at the end of his colorful career… “Jack ’em!”.
Jeez, thinking about it now, I really miss that guy.
Then you tax crying will be ” why is the police being sued”?
One officer neat sighted the other, gravity challenged. Let’s switch officers,ok. New picture has officer gravity sitting on suspect and near sighted one running into the open door.