PLEASE PHOTO Duane Dawson: Police found explosives and narcotics in his home
COURTESY PHOTO Duane Dawson:
Police found explosives and narcotics in his home A 54-year-old Kauai man is facing federal charges after allegedly throwing a bomb at a man in a car and then shooting his eye out with a firearm.
Duane Francis Kalei Dawson was charged Saturday in a federal criminal complaint with attempted possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and being a felon in possession of ammunition.
Dawson has 23 state convictions for a range of crimes including domestic violence, illegal fishing, assault, breaching a protection order and terroristic threats.
In April, a person referred to in federal court documents as “Person A” provided Dawson’s name to Kauai police and told officers that Dawson “threw a ‘bomb’ at his car and then shot him in the face , which caused him to lose his sight. in his right eye.
Kauai Police Department officers searched Dawson’s home on Kuhio Highway in Lihue and that of another person believed to be a criminal associate of Dawson.
Police found “explosives, firearms, firearm suppressors, loaded magazines, loose ammunition, narcotics such as methamphetamine, and items such as clear resealable bags and a digital scale commonly used to package narcotics for distribution,” according to an affidavit written by and an inspector with the US Postal Inspection Service.
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In October, USPIS told Kauai police they learned packages containing methamphetamine were being sent to Dawson.
On December 3, police and federal agents executed a search warrant on two boxes and found more than 10 pounds of methamphetamine.
Then on Thursday, postal inspectors “conducted a controlled delivery of one of the two boxes” and packaged it with fake drugs and a global positioning tracker.
At approximately 7:40 p.m., Dawson reportedly walked into a home where police saw the fake methamphetamine being stored.
At approximately 8:05 p.m., the postal inspector approached Dawson and identified himself. Dawson asked for a lawyer, saying he didn’t know why the police were involved and that his lawyer was “handling the case.”
When Dawson was interviewed about the methamphetamine in the box, he allegedly told police and federal agents, “Oh, the box! That’s not even my box! My girlfriend called me and said there was a box. I came here and she gave me the box! I brought the box, but that’s not our box. I have enough enemies! Someone is trying to frame me.”
Investigators also found a fanny pack containing a loaded black and white firearm with no serial number.
They also allegedly recovered six loose rounds of ammunition, two glass pipes with apparent methamphetamine residue, three small resealable baggies containing approximately 2.29 grams of field-tested positive fentanyl, two food saver bags containing approximately 44.69 grams of field-tested fentanyl. positive cocaine, two small resealable bags containing approximately 3.29 grams of field-tested positive metham-phetamine, a digital scale with white residue, a spoon, a metal stick, a pipe cleaner, and several small colored resealable bags. An investigator wrote that based on his training and experience, the quantities of drugs, packaging materials and paraphernalia “recovered during the search indicate that Dawson was involved in drug trafficking.”
