Hawaiʻi police have charged a 23-year-old Kailua-Kona man in connection to a sequence of break-ins that occurred within the Kailua-Kona space through the early morning hours of Tuesday.

Kahuilakane Abraham-Younger

At roughly 4:56 a.m., Kona patrol officers responded to a reported break-in at a enterprise institution situated on the 75-5600 block of Kopiko Avenue. Responding officers decided that money saved inside the enterprise had been eliminated. It was later discovered {that a} neighboring enterprise had additionally been damaged into and money and different gadgets had been faraway from that enterprise.

Afterward, the identical day at roughly 9:30 a.m., officers responded to a different enterprise in the identical space for an additional reported break-in. The staff of this enterprise reported {that a} storage shed was damaged into and instruments have been taken. Whereas conducting their investigation into that break-in, police say an proprietor of a separate neighboring enterprise reported that his enterprise had additionally been damaged into. The proprietor of the enterprise reported that money had additionally been faraway from the institution.

Investigating officers have been capable of get hold of video surveillance footage from a number of companies within the space and recognized the suspect as 23-year-old Kahuilakane Abraham-Younger of Kailua-Kona. Officers canvassed the realm, situated Abraham-Younger within the surrounding space, and took him into custody for second-degree suspicion of housebreaking and an excellent warrant.

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With the help of a Detective from the Space II Prison Investigation Part, Kona patrol officers continued their investigation into the break-ins. Throughout their investigation, gadgets believed to be stolen from the companies, and three.4 grams of methamphetamine, have been recovered.

On Wednesday, after conferring with the Workplace of the Prosecuting Legal professional, Abraham-Younger was charged with three counts of second-degree housebreaking and one rely every of third-degree promotion of a harmful drug and ordinary property crime. The cost of ordinary property crime stems from prior convictions of property crime offenses inside the final ten years

Abraham-Younger made his preliminary courtroom look on Thursday in Kona District Courtroom the place he was granted supervised launch and ordered to return to courtroom on April 6.

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Anybody who could have data concerning these incidents that occurred through the early morning hours of March 14, 2023, within the space of Kopiko Avenue, is inspired to contact Officer Andrew Padilla at 808-935-3311 or through electronic mail at [email protected].

Tipsters preferring to stay nameless could name the islandwide Crime Stoppers quantity at 808-961-8300 and could also be eligible for a reward of as much as $1,000.