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A circuit judge has denied a request for supervised release for a 24-year-old man accused of intentionally rear-ending a car occupied by a family on Lehiwa Drive in Mililani Mauka.
Harley Chacon appeared before Judge Dean Ochiai on Friday morning. Ochiai denied the motion for supervised release, noting to Chacon’s attorney Michael Green that he would like input from the Oahu Intake Service Center.
Chacon remains at the Oahu Community Correctional Center in lieu of $500,000 bail. His trial is set for the week of Feb. 21.
An Oahu grand jury indicted Chacon in December on four counts of attempted second-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree criminal property damage and first-degree terroristic threatening.
Green said the crash was not road rage. “He was highly intoxicated,” Green said, adding Chacon has no memory of the crash.
Green requested Chacon, who is in the military, be released and confined to the Marine Corps Base at Kaneohe Bay. “He’s a young man who has never been in trouble,” he said. “It’s basically moving him under one custody to another.”
Deputy Prosecutor Kristine Yoo strongly objected to the motion, saying a grand jury had found sufficient probable cause to charge him with attempted murder.
Witnesses to the Dec. 9 crash reported it appeared Chacon intentionally rear-ended the car.