Police have held off charging a Hilo man with a litany of abuse and other charges, instead forwarding the investigation on a majority of the charges for which they arrested him to the Hawaii County Prosecuting Attorney’s office.
Police arrested Keahi Sale Saturday at Spencer Beach Park after receiving a report that he had allegedly kidnapped a woman. Sale, 25, was charged Tuesday with kidnapping, sexual assault, terroristic threatening and abuse, according to online court records.
Sale, who was featured on Hawaii Island’s Most Wanted for three unrelated warrants, was initially also charged with felony assault on an infant, abuse of a child, unlawful imprisonment of another woman, terroristic threatening, custodial interference, sexual assault, unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle and 11 traffic offenses. Those alleged offenses all occurred between September and this month in Hilo and Puna, police said.
On Saturday, Sale allegedly took a woman to Spencer Beach Park, where she called to bystanders for help. People at the park physically restrained Sale until police arrived.
His bail was set at $80,000.
After conferring with prosecutors Tuesday afternoon, on the additional offenses, police did not charge Sale with any of them and will forward those cased to the Office of the Prosecuting attorney for final disposition.
Sale is incarcerated at Hawaii Community Correctional Center and is being held there on the three warrants. His initial court appearance for the charged offenses is scheduled for Thursday afternoon.