Big Isle escapee faces multiple new charges
Advertiser Staff
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HILO, Hawai'i — A 23-year-old man who was on the run for a month after he escaped from the Hawai'i Community Correctional Center on the Big Island faces robbery, kidnapping and other charges.
Kole Race-Joaquin, who was captured Wednesday near a Kaiwiki baseball field, was charged Thursday with escape, robbery, kidnapping, resisting arrest, assault on a police officer and drug counts.
Police said the robbery and kidnapping charges stem from an Oct. 22 incident in the lower Waiakea Uka area of Hilo. A 26-year-old Hilo man told police two men in a truck rammed his vehicle, beat him, took his 34-year-old female companion against her will and stole his vehicle. The woman, who knew her assailant, was found the following day in good health.
Race-Joaquin escaped Oct. 2 from HCCC along with two other inmates. The others, 25- year-old Shawn DeCosta and 31-year-old Frank Enos, were captured later in October.
Race-Joaquin was returned to HCCC, where he was being held in lieu of $300,000 bail.