Hawai‘i Island police arrested and charged 24-year-old Rescue Suda of Hilo on an array of charges, including kidnapping, assault, auto theft, abuse of a family member, and terroristic threatening after a series of incidents that took place on Monday, March 21, 2022, in Hilo and Waimea.

Monday evening police responded to a report of an affray at a residence on Manono Street in Hilo. Suda was arrested for second-degree assault after officers determined Suda assaulted his girlfriend’s brother with a beer bottle. 

In the course of their investigation, police learned that earlier in the day Suda struck his live-in girlfriend twice on the right side of her face causing injury while the couple was at Honoli‘i Beach Park in Hilo. They then left the area and the girlfriend was held against her will and not allowed to leave. 

The woman tried to leave when Suda stopped at a store in Pepe‘ekeō but was unsuccessful. When they stopped at a commercial center in Waimea she was able to get out of the vehicle, but he grabbed her and struck her several more times. With a knife in his hand, he began pulling her back into the vehicle while making threatening gestures with the knife. Bystanders intervened and helped the woman escape. Suda then fled the area in her vehicle and was later arrested by Hilo patrol officers when they were called to the Manono Street affray. 

On Tuesday, March 22, Suda was arrested for kidnapping, unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle, first-degree terroristic threatening, and two counts of abuse of a family household member stemming from the incidents that occurred at Honoli‘i Beach Park and in Waimea.

After conferring with the County Prosecutors Office, detectives from the Area I Juvenile Aid Section charged Suda with second-degree assault, kidnapping, unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle, first-degree terroristic threatening, and two counts of abuse family household member. His bail was set at $18,000.

Suda remains in police custody pending his initial court appearance scheduled for Thursday, March 24, in Hilo District Court.