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Man, 37, charged with drug and firearm offenses after Hilo assault

COURTESY HAWAII POLICE DEPARTMENT
                                Skyler John Fisher was taken into custody by Hawaii island police and charged with multiple drug and firearm-related offenses.
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COURTESY HAWAII POLICE DEPARTMENT

Skyler John Fisher was taken into custody by Hawaii island police and charged with multiple drug and firearm-related offenses.

Prosecutors have charged a 37-year-old Hilo man with multiple drug and firearm-related offenses following an an alleged violent encounter on Hawaii island.

Skyler John Fisher was charged with first-degree unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle, first-degree terroristic threatening, third-degree assault, two counts of first-degree promotion of a harmful drug and multiple firearm-related offenses that include possession of a prohibited weapon and two counts of carrying or possession a loaded firearm.

He was released Sunday after posting $68,000 bail.

Hawaii island police said two male victims reported that their vehicle was struck by another vehicle in the parking lot of a retail establishment on the 500 block of Kilauea Avenue in Hilo shortly before 5:15 p.m. Friday.

When the victims exited their vehicle to assess the damage, the driver of the other vehicle, identified as Fisher, physically assaulted one of the males and threatened him while holding a firearm, police added.

Fisher left the scene before officers arrived. Police arrested him a short time later after locating him in a service station parking lot on Kamehameha Avenue in Hilo.

Detectives of the Area I Criminal Investigation Section executed a search warrant of Fisher’s vehicle Saturday and recovered six firearms, a firearm silencer, ammunition as well as liquid steroids, more than 200 steroid pills and more than a 1,000 diazepam pills.

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