Kauai man indicted on multiple charges

A Kauai grand jury indicted a 43-year-old Kapaa man who allegedly went on an eight-hour crime spree Nov. 4 after leaving the grounds of the Kauai Community Correctional Center on Nov. 3, the Kauai Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday.

Walter L. Mills was indicted on first-degree robbery, three counts of kidnapping, two counts of first-degree unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle, one count of interference with the operator of a public transit vehicle, first-degree terroristic threatening, second-degree escape and fourth-degree theft. His bail was set at $1 million.

Mills is in federal custody on bank robbery and Hobbs Act robbery charges stemming from incidents that occurred Nov. 4 in which he allegedly robbed the Lihue branch of First Hawaiian Bank and the Lifeway Pharmacy in Koloa.

He is also serving a six-year sentence for a 2015 robbery of Kapaa Pharmacy in which he wore a mask and used a BB gun to steal 2,000 pills of OxyContin, oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine and methadone.