Hawai’i Police Department
Kona District
Lieutenant Melvin Yamamoto
Phone: 326-4646, Ext. 287
July 12, 2010
Report No. C10019055
Media Release (update)
Big Island police have arrested a suspect in the July 7 assault of a 50-year-old Captain Cook man on Painted Church Road in South Kona.
Twenty-one-year-old Drosstain Edward Pua of Kona was arrested Monday morning (July 12)and charged Monday afternoon with second-degree assault, third-degree assault and violating terms of release on bail.
He is being held without bail at the Kona police cellblock pending a court appearance Tuesday (July 13).