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Honolulu, HI – On Thursday, October 20, 2011
at approximately 4:00pm, the U.S. Marshals Service’s Adam Walsh Fugitive Task
Force located and apprehended 20 year-old Hans Poouahi, Jr. at a Hanalei Street
home in Waianae, Hawaii. Poouahi Jr. was wanted for a $20,000 cash-only state
warrant issued on September 6, 2011 by Judge Steven S. Alm for failing to comply
with the terms and condition of HOPE (Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with
Enforcement) Probation with the underlying charge of Escape in the Second
Degree.
In 2005, Poouahi Jr. was only 13 years-old at the time when he was implicated of
child abuse that nearly caused the death of a 10 year-old girl. In February 2005
court documents revealed, the abused victim was found on a couch on the lanai of
an “Ainaloa home with a cut on her head that was “decomposing and containing
maggots.” She also had injuries to her upper lip and other areas of her body
that showed signs of decomposition.” The victim also suffered broken bones,
dehydration and malnutrition. A District Court Affidavit indicated a doctor at
Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women & Children who treated the girl told police
that marks on the girl’s body suggested she had been bound, and that “she had
several areas of dead tissue about her body as a result of pressure ulcering and
burns that appeared to be from a cigarette and cigarette lighter. The girl spent
six weeks in a coma recovering from the inflicted injuries. Poouahi Jr. was
convicted as a juvenile and housed at the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility
until he turned 19 years-old. Poouahi Jr. was sentenced to Probation and has
since violated the terms and conditions of HOPE Probation. Yesterdays arrest
marks Poouahi Jr’s third revocation this year.
Poouahi’s Jr., mother Hyacinth L. Poouahi, was also involved and convicted of
first-degree assault, first-degree unlawful imprisonment, terroristic
threatening and endangering the welfare of a child. As a result of the guilty
pleas the attempted murder charge that was initially brought against her was
dropped.
Poouahi Jr. was featured in Hawaii CrimeStoppers and KHON2 News Hawaii’s Most
Wanted.
Additional information about the U.S.
Marshals Service can be found at
http://www.usmarshals.gov.
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