Spree suspect faces slew of charges

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Hawaii Police charge a Kailua-Kona man after a crime spree that encompassed both East and West Hawaii.

Joshua Hams, 38, was arrested just before 1:40 p.m. Wednesday at a home on Kalamauka Street in Holualoa after Hams was involved in multiple crimes that spanned four police districts.

This afternoon detectives from the Area II Criminal Investigations Section charged Ham with the following crimes:

* Unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle

* Criminal property damage in the first-degree

* Seven counts of Criminal property damage in the second-degree

* Criminal property damage in the third-degree

* Two counts of Theft in the fourth-degree

* Seven counts of Use of a firearm in the commission of a separate felony

* Three counts of Robbery in the first-degree

* Attempted Robbery in the first-degree

* Three counts of Terroristic threatening in the first-degree

* Terroristic threatening in the second-degree

* Three counts of Reckless endangering in the second-degree

* Violation of the conditions of probation

* Four counts of Possession of a firearm prohibited

* Unauthorized entry into a dwelling in the second-degree

* Reckless driving

* Resisting an order to stop a motor vehicle

* Accident involving property damage

Hams is currently being held at the Kona Police cellblock without bail on the probation violation charge. Bail was set at $812,000 on the remaining charges. His initial court appearance is set for Friday morning in Kona District Court.