KAILUA-KONA, HI – The Hawai‘i Police Department reported that a Kona grand jury has returned an indictment against an Ocean View man in connection with a crash that killed a pedestrian last month.
The charges against 24-year-old Janne Labin stem from an incident on May 30 on the Old Kona Airport roadway in Kailua-Kona shortly before 7:30 p.m. Police determined that the driver of a 2017 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck was traveling southbound (Kona-bound) when the vehicle veered off the paved portion of the roadway onto an unfinished gravel area and struck a male pedestrian who was walking south on the unpaved portion of the runway. The pedestrian died of his injuries on June 4.
Labin was arrested June 17 and served with a grand jury indictment charging him with manslaughter, first-degree negligent homicide, and operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant.
He was being held at the Kealakehe Police Station cellblock after bail was set at $150,000.
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