COURTESY HAWAII CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA CENTER Josiah Weiland-Vierra 1 /1 COURTESY HAWAII CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA CENTER Josiah Weiland-Vierra A 26-year-old man was charged today with using an airsoft gun against a man’s truck in Nanakuli before killing a police sport committed company car and tries to steal another car in Kaneohe.
Josiah Weiland-Vierra was charged today with first-degree theft, first-degree damage to property, two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening, auto theft, first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer and stealing a motorcycle.
He is being held in lieu of $300,000 bail.
He was arrested Tuesday at 1:50 p.m. near the intersection of Kahekili Highway and Kahuhipa Street.
Around 11:20 a.m. Tuesday, Weiland-Vierra allegedly pulled a “gun and demanded property” from a 26-year-old man in Nanakuli before taking the man’s Toyota Tacoma truck.
The firearm is believed to be an airsoft pistol that fires plastic pellets.
Police used patrol officers, crime suppression unit personnel and one of the department’s helicopters to locate and pursue Weiland-Vierra through three patrol districts, from Nanakuli to Kaneohe.
In Kaneohe, Weiland-Vierra allegedly backed the Tacoma into a blue and white HPD SUV, disabling the Tacoma and sending a female officer to the hospital.
Weiland-Vierra got out of the car, jumped over the median of the highway and tried to get into three other cars using the airsoft gun he was carrying.
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