A 19-year-old Puna man was in police custody Tuesday in connection with a crime spree involving a stolen county truck, Hawaii island police said.

On Saturday morning someone stole a 2016 Ford F350 utility truck with a lift gate from the county’s mass transit base yard on East Lanikaula Street, police said.

Over the weekend the vehicle was seen being driven recklessly throughout Hilo and was involved in two police pursuits and two hit-and-run collisions with members of the public, police said.

On Monday afternoon someone in the stolen truck fired a gun near bystanders in Hawaiian Paradise Park, but no one was hurt and no property was damaged, police said. Patrol officers opened a reckless-endangering investigation in connection with the shooting.

Later that afternoon the county truck was found engulfed in flames in the remote Fern Forest subdivision in Puna. Police opened an arson investigation for the burned $70,000 vehicle, considered a total loss.

Also Monday afternoon, police spotted the suspect driving a stolen Toyota 4Runner in Mountain View. When they gave chase, the suspect and an alleged accomplice abandoned the SUV and ran into nearby bushes, police said.

A police tracking dog found the suspect. His accomplice got away.

Police arrested the suspect for investigation of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle. Police added that the stolen SUV was connected to the stolen county truck.

The suspect was being held Tuesday at the Hilo cellblock pending charges.