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By Barry Markowitz, Special to the Star-Bulletin
HPD Swat team members approached the Sunset Beach
parking lot restrooms from Kamehameha Highway for
cover yesterday. They were moving to cut fences to
extricate officers first on the scene.

Police patience pays off
at Sunset Beach

Part of Kamehameha closes when
a man with a firearm is reported,
but he eventually surrenders

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Star-Bulletin staff

Police successfully waited out a 36-year-old man, who surrendered early today without incident after barricading himself in a Sunset Beach home for nearly 14 hours.

The roadway between Ke Nui and Hoalua Street in the area of the home at 59-114A Kamehameha Highway had to be closed at 4:40 p.m. yesterday due to the incident. It was reopened today soon after 5 a.m.

The man reportedly was armed with a rifle but did not have a weapon when he surrendered, police said.

Police plan to execute a search warrant on the house later today to determine whether the suspect had a firearm.

Police responded to the home when a witness reported seeing the man throwing objects into the window of the house at 3:40 p.m.

The man was later seen inside the house pointing a rifle at the witness.

The man was taken into custody and booked for first-degree terroristic threatening.