Hawaii Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a 23-year-old Big Island man wanted on two warrants and for questioning in two separate investigations involving a firearm.
Hawaii Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a 23-year-old Big Island man wanted on two warrants and for questioning in two separate investigations involving a firearm.
Mikah K. Costa, who should be considered armed and dangerous, has no known permanent address but is known to frequent the Pahoa area, according to the Hawaii Police Department. Police advise the public not to approach Costa.
Costa is wanted on an outstanding warrant of arrest, a contempt warrant, as well as for questioning relative to two separate investigations involving a firearm, according to the department.
One of the cases was a reported theft of a firearm in October 2018 and the other case is an armed robbery that was reported on May 10, according to police. Both incidents occurred in the Pahoa area.
Costa is identified as being 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weighing 155 pounds, with a thin build, olive complexion, with brown hair, and hazel eyes.
Anyone with information about Costa’s whereabouts should call the department’s nonemergency number at (808) 935-3311.
