The Maui News
Jaisen Kahalehau, 44, was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening.
He was arrested after police were called to the Kahului breakwater at about 8 p.m.
The other man told police that Kahalehau challenged him to a fight and ran toward him while holding an 18-inch machete with the blade pointed up, according to a declaration filed in court to support the charge.
Kahalehau was holding the machete when police officers arrived on scene, according to the declaration.
During Kahalehau’s initial appearance by videoconference Tuesday in Wailuku District Court, Deputy Prosecutor Byron Fujieda asked for bail to be increased from $1,000 to $5,000.
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WAILUKU Saying a defendant poses an “extreme danger to the community,” a deputy prosecutor asked Friday for bail to be increased to $2 million for a man charged with attempted murder for allegedly driving toward a police officer in Wailuku.
Kaipo Lapenia-Lau, 25, of Kahului was arrested Tuesday morning after a police pursuit that ended at a residence off Kahekili Highway in Waihee.
Lapenia-Lau appeared by videoconference from the courthouse cellblock for his initial appearance Friday in Wailuku District Court.
He is charged with first-degree attempted murder, first-degree attempted assault on a law enforcement officer, two counts of first-degree resisting an order to stop a motor vehicle and first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer.