MEDIA RELEASE

Sasha Leinani Shelly Soares

Police have charged a 28-year-old Hilo woman for allegedly driving a stolen vehicle.

Sasha Leinani Shelly Soares was arrested in Nanawale Estates in Puna on Sunday (October 21) after she was seen operating a Jeep Wrangler that was reported stolen during a burglary in Kailua-Kona on October 17.

After conferring with prosecutors, detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigations Section charged Soares at 4:35 p.m. Tuesday with one count of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle. Her bail was set at $10,000.