Hawaiʻi Island police arrested and charged a Hilo couple with an array of offenses following the execution of a search warrant at a Hilo residence.
Yesterday morning, Special Response Team (SRT) and Crisis Negotiators, along with members of the Area I Crime Reduction Unit (CRU) and the Criminal Investigation Division, executed a search warrant on a Ponahawai Street residence, where 31-year-old Dillon Royden Daimen Revila and 33-year-old Latoya-Lynn Pilialoha Spalding-Poepoe, were taken into custody on the strength of multiple warrants.
Following conferral with the Hawai’i County Prosecutors Office, Revilla and Spalding-Poepoe were charged with the following offenses:
Revilla was charged with:
- Two counts of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle (UCPV)
- Two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening
- Two counts of second-degree assault
- First-degree criminal property damage
- First degree theft
- Habitual property crime
- Driving without a valid driver’s license (DWOL)
- Abuse of a family or household member
- Violations of conditions of release on bail, recognizance, or supervised release (Warrant of Arrest)
- Summons or arrest of defendant on probation; commitment without bail (Warrant of Arrest)
His total bail was set at $134,000.
Spalding-Poepoe was charged with:
- Unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle (UEMV)
- Habitual property crime
- Three counts of violations of conditions of release on bail, recognizance, or supervised release (Arrest Warrants)
- Fourth-degree theft (Bench Warrant)
Her total bail was set at $46,900.
The charges against Revilla and Spalding-Poepoe stem from separate vehicle theft investigations and an abuse incident spanning the past several months in various locations on the island.
There were no reported injuries to Revilla, Spalding-Poepoe, other tenants of the residence, or police personnel.
Anyone with information regarding Revilla and/or Spalding-Poepoe is asked to call Detective John Balberde of the Area I Crime Reduction Unit, at (808) 961-2272 or via email at John.Balberde@hawaiicounty.gov.
Photos courtesy of Hawaiʻi County Police Department
