KURTISTOWN (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii Island police have arrested a 31-year-old Pomaikai Olson, of Na‘alehu, for first-degree robbery following a violent crime spree on Saturday afternoon.
At 4:43 p.m., police dispatch received numerous calls regarding a reckless driver traveling Hilo-bound on Highway 11.
Callers reported that a large white Dodge pickup truck was being driven recklessly, forcing oncoming vehicles off the roadway and causing several traffic collisions.
As officers responded to locate the vehicle, a 62-year-old woman called police and reported that she had been carjacked at gunpoint near Highway 11 and Luna Ikena Road in Volcano.
The suspect, later identified as Olson, had reportedly left his white pickup truck in the roadway and fled the area in the woman’s Hummer H3, hea