Part of Hilo street closed while police execute search warrant, arrest couple

Big Island police closed a portion of Ponahawai Street in Hilo near a residence in the 600 block for about 90 minutes around 6 a.m. Sunday morning out of an abundance of caution for the safety of tenants, the community and police personnel while they executed a search warrant and arrested a Hilo couple in connection with an array of charges connected with several vehicle thefts and an abuse incident.

The couple, 31-year-old Dillon Royden Daimen Revila and 33-year-old Latoya-Lynn Pilialoha Spalding-Poepoe, also were wanted on several outstanding warrants.

There were no reported injuries to the suspects, other tenants of the residence or police personnel.

The roadway has since been reopened.

The Hawai‘i Police Department’s Special Response Team and crisis negotiators with members of the Area I Crime Reduction Unit and the Criminal Investigation Division executed the search warrant on the residence, where Revila and Spalding-Poepoe were eventually taken into custody.

Revilla was charged with:

• Two counts of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.
• Two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening.
• Two counts of second-degree assault.
• First-degree criminal property damage.
• First-degree theft.
• Habitual property crime.
• Driving without a valid driver’s license.
• Abuse of a family or household member.
• Violations of conditions of release on bail, recognizance or supervised release (arrest warrant).
• Summons or arrest of defendant on probation; commitment without bail (arrest warrant).

His total bail was set at $134,000.

Spalding-Poepoe was charged with:

• Unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle.
• Habitual property crime.
• Three counts of violations of conditions of release on bail, recognizance or supervised release (arrest warrants)
• Fourth-degree theft (bench warrant)

Her total bail was set at $46,900.

The separate vehicle theft investigations and abuse incident spanned the past several months in various locations around the island.

Anyone who might have information abuot Revilla and/or Spalding-Poepoe is asked to contact Detective John Balberde with the Area I Crime Reduction Unit at 808-961-2272 or vial email at John.Balberde@hawaiicounty.gov.