Police are requesting the public’s assistance in finding a 31-year-old Puna man and a 25-year-old Puna woman, both considered armed and dangerous, who are wanted for questioning in a carjacking reported early Wednesday morning. ADVERTISING Police are requesting the public’s
Police are requesting the public’s assistance in finding a 31-year-old Puna man and a 25-year-old Puna woman, both considered armed and dangerous, who are wanted for questioning in a carjacking reported early Wednesday morning.
Leroy Daniel Kekaula Castro III and Kandace Kehaulani Iaukea are also wanted by police on unrelated outstanding warrants of arrest.
Castro is described as 5-feet-7-inches, 150 pounds with brown eyes and short black hair.
Iaukea is is described as 5-feet-7 inches, 155 pounds, brown eyes and black hair with a star-type tattoo on the back of both hands and tattoos to both forearms.
Both are known to frequent the Hilo and Puna areas, police said.
“The victim identified them as the responsible parties,” said Acting Lt. Wendall Carter of the Hawaii Police Department Criminal Investigation Section.
Carter said the man told officers Castro and Iaukea were riding in his 2011 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck when the pair, one reportedly brandishing a machete, forced him out of the truck on Ahuna Road in the Panaewa area of Hilo, then took off with his truck, which bears Hawaii license plate HMF 880.
The incident is classified as a first-degree robbery.
According to court records, Castro is on probation for a 2015 felony drug conviction. A motion was filed in June to revoke his probation and a bench warrant for his arrest on that motion is pending.
Iaukea is on probation for a 2014 felony drug conviction. She missed a court hearing on a motion to modify her probation on May 13, 2015, and a warrant of arrest, still unserved, was filed on June 9, 2015, court records state.
The public is advised not to approach either Castro or Iaukea, whom police consider to be armed and dangerous.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Castro, Iaukea or both is asked to call the police non-emergency line at or contact Detective Aaron Carvalho at 961-2272 or aaron.carvalho@hawaiicounty.gov.
Those who prefer anonymity may call Crime Stoppers number at 961-8300.
Email John Burnett at jburnett@hawaiitribune-herald.com.
