Father of Maui carjacking suspect speaks out, criticizes low bail for son
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- The father of a carjacking suspect on Maui believes that crime could have been prevented if his son hadn’t been released on bail nearly a month earlier.
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This guy has more than a problem with drugs. He is a sociopath.
Maybe. I'm pretty sure in America he should be considered innocent until proven guilty. So far he has only been accused of these crimes... not convicted.
drugs actually help you less of a bad person. at least he's not an alcoholic. Thats way worse.
i agree
Actually a psychopath
Absolutely. The couple interviewed said he and accomplices chased and tried to murder them as they fled.
Must be very difficult for a parent to realize how dangerous to society his son is .
Maui? He is a Maui police tool on the streets. How did the drugs get on Maui? Maui police, They own this thug they made, and he is their tool for use to get others into their claws. This is not rocket science people.
No its not , just get him the help he needs, that is the conversation needed before the judge not the public
@@user-wm1zk4cx2hDefine help when the system is set up for your failure
I feel your pain. It's a ugly job. Be strong n stay brave. All love n respect to you and your family
No sorry to you but my poor son let me go on the news and my son was a good boy from a great family , sorry not to you but sorry he will have to stay in jail for a short time but he came from a good family , that's important right🤣😂🤣
This is how a REAL PARENT acts. It’s a shame so many families ok their loved ones bad behavior.
Wow, I couldn't disagree more that this father has failed as a parent!
Ohhhh…..no no no. YOU especially….using God as a cover for your lies and propaganda about Lahaina. Go away already. YOU have no business here…..keep lies in Alabama . Are they all toothless in Alabama??
@@itgoestoeleven Judge not lest ye be judged.
@@itgoestoelevenwtf are you talking about my man
Wtf are you talking about my man @@itgoestoeleven
“Usually” bail is ONLY $10,000 for kidnapping??? Our country has gone crazy.
Agreed, that is too low of a bail amount for kidnapping.
Yep, blue states protect criminals, not victims.
the bail isn't affected from inflation 🤣
I was thinking the same thing. But there are also different types of kidnapping charges. It's not always "This guy came up to me and pointed a gun at me and made me get in his car and drove me to his house and tied me up in the bedroom." Sometimes it's more like "I was doing meth with my boyfriend for a week straight and he had a psychotic episode and would not let me leave the apartment or use my phone." Now, however, the bail seems ridiculously high. $750,000 ??? That's in the realm of a murder charge.
Yeah 10,000 for kidnapping is nothing. Can’t even get a Rolex with that 😂
This poor guy needs to be locked up away from society, he will never be rehabilitated.
If you listen to this story there were more people involved as a couple was being hunted as they try to escape. This guy is a dangerous to the community he shouldn't even be granted bail
IF their crazy, unbelievable story is true. We have no way of knowing that--and quite frankly, they have no way of proving it. Sounds like bullshit to me.
For carjacking it should be $100,000 bail!
Still that is not much. He would have to come up with 10k
@@jmatt98his ex helped him (girl he’s an ex for a reason) 🤦♀️
Why? He shouldnt get bailed out period
Why aren't we talking about the individuals who HELPED him? On the motorcycles and with a drone?
Wait... Wait... Wait... Sexual crimes, abuse of household member, 8 year prison term and 5 years second time? Bahrah! Why he even got one low bail? And no blame the drugs. Its him!
Drugs invite evil and dark demonic energies to take over the person’s physical vessel.
Democrats.
@@nadogrl Democrats and their sick policies of coddling violent criminals are responsible for events like this.
@@nadogrlI’m a Conservative and your claim is ridiculous. 🤷🏻♀️
And how about his accomplices in the white minivan and the drone hunters? WTH were these sociopaths trying to do after they stole everything? Kidnap/ransom, senseless murder? This is beyond enraging. Do I need to carry ?
These are serious criminals, I was in Maui after the fires delivering some contributions and a gang of criminals placed spikes on the highway and started following me for a long stretch of the dirt road, I made a mistake by not reporting the incident
It's hard to help someone who won't even help himself.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to help someone who won’t help themself.
Psychopaths are incurable.
This guy is a grown adult and the prosecutor says if she knew the dad didn't want a shorter stay, she would have pushed for a stiffer penalty. FIRE THIS CLOWN PROSECUTOR. SHE MAKES YOUR COMMUNITY DANGEROUS.
What are you talking about. Megan Kau is NOT the prosecutor. She’s not even A prosecutor. And even if she was A prosecutor, it would be for Honolulu County, the one she ran for, not Maui County…
Our weak criminal justice and judges have ZERO interest in public safety. Zero bail for all crime.
Keep him in jail thats where he belongs.
PRISON.
Maybe ALL Tourist should stop visiting Maui for a few Years. See how fast the Justice System changes. It’s Sad, but drastic actions must be taken.
Pssshhh 🤭😂🤣 that’ll NEVER happen. We get 5-12 million tourists every year (it fluctuates drastically).
Boycott Maui until they change the rules.
Maui & Kauai are NOT SAFE
maybe you shouldnt smoke meth.
@@The.Hawaiian.KingdomLol saying it'll never happen. Tourism IS way down and it's not coming back. Mainlanders have heard the message loud and clear: tourists are not wanted here and tourists are not safe here.
Deputy prosecutor is a joke.
What a POS mentality from the prosecutor.
Man you know you’re a problem when pops comes out to make a public statement disavowing your behavior and saying you should be in jail.
That "person" MUST be Thrown in Jail for YEARS or he WILL DO THIS AGAIN!!!!! WTF!!!
This is the same dude that ran me and my wife off the road a few years ago. He first flipped us off as we got squeezed by the narrow road and he turned right into us causing us to go off the side into a ditch. Man i was in fighting mode. Got out, he was 50ft away getting out. Im 6'4" 200lbs. He looked at me and took off. Our rental was mangled but driveable and got back to the hotel fine.
I never forget a face. Still can't believe it's this guy!
Btw. The cop that came to take our report said " locals dont really like tourists". I said, "then they're stupid and theyll die that way." We never heard back from him.
call the DA office.
WoW, The criminals and law enforcement are likely friends or family. The low bail set and lack of jailing this moron proves that.
what's up with the tons of bows and arrows and dead bear splayed out on display behind the dad?
Crazy story man thx for share.
Namaste
How utterly sad for the parents to ask that a higher bail to be given. They must've exhausted every means to help their son. I truly think that should a Judge release or go easy on a habitual criminal and a far more heinous crime happens, the famlies should hold them accountable. We rely on our Judicial system to be prudent in their decision and they failed. Hawaii's revolving door system needs to be revamped.
It is tragic how his ex posted the bail. She took food out of her kids mouths just to help that lowlife.
Well said. To a certain point our system needs to be liberal. But here we have a seriously bad record…. And the guy makes bail .
Kidnapping and Terror threats... $5500
vs.
Robbery... $750,000 ($75,000)
??WTF???
Well... he was out on bail when he allegedly committed the other crimes... so that's certainly an enhancement.
Violence towards animals often shifts to violence towards humans, I’ve seen the expanded circle of violence over and over again.
Put him and the judge that let him out in jail!!
Needs to be under the jail
Charge the Judge! For obstruction of Justice!
Aiding and abetting a crime.
He can not be freed, he is very dangerous...
The fricken drugs ruins everyone's lives.
Everyone has a choice, to do the drug or to do the crime. I know people who use drugs that don’t commit crime. Comes down to the individual. We need to hold people accountable and stop making excuses for everything.
It's like saying sugar ruins every diabetes lives, alcohol ruin lives ! Really!!!
The drugs, the sugar, the caffeine ,the world. It's not the drugs, stop blaming everything !
Government knows this. That’s why they destabilize whole regions of the world with drugs.
Ex. Chinese opium war… Ronald Reagan flooding inner cities with crack in the 80s…
So were the other folks helping to chase him just as crazy? What happened to them? The couple said there were at least 3 people.
@stephaniejames4940
No, at least three cars. Who knows how many people where involved!
possibly not reality.
Law Enforcement is known for doing nothing on Maui
What should be said is sorry to the couple who ran scared for their lives 3:19
Well @2:44 they say _“he’s skeptical that his son was involved in the car jacking and he wants to make sure he gets a fair trial”_ … so I don’t know that he would apologize for something he’s skeptical of his son even doing.
Odd since he understands his son has a drug problem and thinks his son needs to be in jail, but it can be hard to see your children clearly sometimes. 🤷🏽♀️
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom ok! Good job
Soft on crime policies.
I can empathize with this man. I’m going through almost the same thing with my son. I wish there was more to the detox programs like a mental health component. My son is now hearing voices.😢 💔
It breaks your heart as a parent knowing that you did your best raising them to be good people. How do we get them back to the person that they used to be…minus the drugs?
My son was an azzhole for 10 years. He has turned around completely. Best father and son one could ever have for the last 2 years. Hang in there. If your son has schizophrenia he needs to be diagnosed and on medication. I know a few really good people that have schizophrenia. It happens as they get older. Try educate yourself about it.
Mr. Troy Helmer. I am the father of one of your sick drug addict son's victims. Instead of whining and crying on television and blaming your son's heinous crimes on the Justice Department, how about a sincere apology to your drug addled son's victims and families. I believe first and foremost that is the least you should have done. How about prayers for the victims?
Come on know, your doing same thing, blaming someone who didn't commit a crime nor is responsible for punishment. This man owes you nor anyone else a damn thing. That lowlife is a grown adult who's taking advantage of our broken judicial system just like a million other criminals. Welcome to the world of us victims who suffer cuz the laws do little to nothing
Reason or Treason. Choose One.
There is NO "Us or Them" in We the People
GOP = Government Of Putin
@@Wi2Low
what's up with the tons of bows and arrows and dead bear splayed out on display behind the dad?
In the 90’s I threw a packet of taco sauce at a car that cut me off when I was 18. It didn’t explode, just bounced off harmlessly. My bail was $50,000 in Palo Alto, CA and it kept me out of the Marines after being accepted and given a ship out date.
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No bail for crimes such as these. Look at the statistics. So do the math.
Hope Maui wakes up this election season and stops voting Blue! They don’t have your best interest in mind!
What about his accomplices?!
bail is a scam. How is it safe to let a constantly violent person out just because they can come up with an amount of money? Shameful that the state will compromise public safety for any price.
The father posing in front of a bear's skin, and all his compound bows, is weird.
Judges seem to be regularly doing the ole ‘Catch & Release’! Not ok!!
He’s skeptical his son was involved in the carjacking? What??? I feel for this father, but your son is a dangerous individual that should be permanently locked up.
Why doesn't this reporter interview the judge who released him?
He should have been in prison, so now he’s not guilty?
My question is , who set the bail amounts for crimes in maui ? How does this happen? Who has that much power ? Liberals, democrats, blm and the ACLU. We need common sense in the justice system again. Thriw out the keft and vring in the right this november. Its our only hope folks .Vote in Nov. Save our country. Rj willis
Too much excuse-making and failure to take parental responsibility.
At least the father isn’t saying he’s a good kid and would hurt anyone. It’s hard for a parent to accept and admit the child is a threat, glad he called out the DA , but the DA shouldn’t need to hear it from the parents that their son is dangerous, DA has plenty of evidence of a violent history !
My heart goes out to his father and his family.
But the reality is this guy and the people that were helping him look for those victims whose car he hijacked with a gun, they weren't looking for them to apologize or return their car and belongings they were looking for them so there wouldn't be any witnesses, they were going to kill them.
It couldn't get more serious.
This psychopath and whoever was involved in this, the Van, I think it had taxi written on it, and the other car that the witnesses described looking for them, we're going to commit murder and if anybody thinks that's not true they're delusional.
I am very sorry for this fathers pain. His heart is broken. I am in a similar situation with a son, currently in jail, who has serious mental illness and drug/alcohol addiction. I have done everything I can to try to get my son help for 12 years now. The 'justice' system is broken. Jail time alone is not the answer for most offenders.
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As it was put to me by a family friend who is an attorney in Honolulu, "Hawaii doesn't have a justice system... only a legal system." Semantics aside, my heart goes out to you as a fellow father, albeit of a MUCH younger boy. Hawaii is home, but stories like yours are a big part of the reason I left Hawaii and the US to raise my family.
@@crosscolin That's not just Hawaii, it's the United States, in general. The only goal of our justice system is punishment. No rehabilitation. Then when you get out, your criminal record follows you for the rest of your life and makes it next to impossible to find a job, which just compounds all the problems that drove people to crime in the first place. Add to that very limited and ineffective social services. I'm not surprised our recidivism rate is as high as it is.
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@@jaybleu6169 Jail is like a hotel these days, good food, recreation, internet, maybe more like El Salvador, they do not want to go back.
The couple was hunted for hours and he even called for back-up and two other vehicles with two other people showed up with flashlights and a drone to hunt for the couple who hid through the night as they slowly made their way up across the mountain.
Grateful for honest and caring parents who do their best and have love in their heart even with such difficult situations. 🙏🏽🕊️❤
The dude is a criminal
Breaks a parents hearts. 💔
I have to give it to the parents for not enabling him and coming out against his actions.
Must suck to have to always worry about wether or not your son is gonna do crazy shet all the time.
fire arms are illegal in Hawaii. How judge and prosecutors released him with bail? Knowing he had a weapon in his car. Mind blowing 🤯
wonder how many tourists him and the other people he was with have murdered, the couple he carjacked said there were 3 cars searching for them and they even had a drone with a spotlight. he also counted down before he started shooting at them and said he was going to find out where they live and hunt them down…
Send his parents to jail with him!
he may even hurt his parents . drugs change people to monsters
He’s doing drugs because his parents failed him, by society’s standards.
I feel bad for Troy, left with nothing to do but pray for his son. What a disappointment this punk kid has been, with a string of violent crimes since he was a teenager. He’s notorious for picking fights with random strangers. Now he gets to go back to prison where he can pick fights all day. His favorite pastime.
We’re not here to make excuses for our son …BUT…if the courts would have blah blah blah…this all could have been avoided. What a joke!!
Where are the other people from the other two cars?
DAD says " Im skeptical of the charges." " Your still my little boy" ? Wake up dad.
Blame everyone except the criminal.
This dude was on a roll. This case is nothing compared to what he had gotten away with for the last month prior to this. He is lucky he got locked up.
So you need a parent to tell you how to do your job? You mean you think all that he did is worth a lower bail? @2:16
Troy Helmer is a real man for holding his son accountable for his deplorable actions.
The carjacker and his idiot ex-girlfriend both need to be sued on civil court.
Bail should be appropriate to the crime committed and payment should not be discounted. If bail is $55,000.00 than it should be firm and release should not be granted until the full bail is paid - not a down payment of $5,000.00
Bad parenting. Don't make excuses.
As he sits in front of his splayed bear skin and collection of bows lol
Not always...
What happen to the three-strikes law that elevated to a Class C felony which automatically a five-year sentence?
Been to Maui twice! Now I'm rethinking about a third trip! Because his accomplices are out there!
Good grief!🤦♀️ I just watched a news interview with the victims on another station from 2 days before this one and it was clearly so much more than a carjacking! Kudos to the suspect's poor father for being willing to speak up. I hope the police find the other suspects who were involved soon, if they haven't already.
I agree with several other comments, the carjacker is a sociopath. Drug addiction may be A problem but it is not THE problem in this guy's case. Thank goodness that couple made it to safety.
$1000 bail for making severe terrorist threats in Maui!! Sure- blame the Maui police!
That road they were speaking of, most rental car companies won’t cover you if you drive it with their car and if any damage happens you are 100% liable. That is why when I drove the road to Hannah, I left at 4:00 am and was already 2/3rds of the way back home going back the same way I came in when the sun began setting. That was after reaching Hannah and spending about 2 hours in Hannah hiking to the waterfall through the bamboo forest and swimming in the ocean.
The DA has access to all the records. Why does someone have to tell her about the past crimes?
😢 so sad how this can happen
friggin father blaming the cops - but now he doesn't think he was involved?
01:42 don’t make excuses
@1:32 lol at the majestic, digital background. I wonder where she really is reporting from? 🤔
Maui police and its court system aren't doing enough to keep its citizens and visitors safe! Auwe, shameful, that people are getting terrorized by repeat criminals because they are not getting stiff enough penalties!
Well “dad” shouldn’t have to tell prosecutors how to do their job or the criminals record! Why is this guy still being offered bail!! Waiting for him to actually murder someone? Ridiculous
Because Democrats, you guys voted this way!
He has friends on the police department!
That's amazing to me. It could have been prevented if you would have raised your son the right way.
That's an honest man. No "victim" supporter
This man needs to go away forever
Keep Voting Blue.
The son terrorized CA couple and stole their rental car! Now the adoptive? father claim he doesn't think his violent son did it! Father is a psychopath also!
is there drug rehab to force him
in in jail?
Look at the father with all his weapons behind him. Kinda creepy, daddy.
He’s not the criminal, cupcake.
@@nadogrl well, he sure raised a criminal. Wonder where the thug influence came from?…His Daddy.
Low bail = Democrat DAs/ Prosecutors.
Plz vote!!! This is so scary
Sexual crimes. Lock him up forever.
He would’ve just done it after, here’s the thing we only know that he did it this time because he got caught how many hundreds of times has he not been caught? That’s what you need to think about.
Heartbreaking.
Keystone kopps and jokers for judge's.
Yet everyone keeps voting blue….
Lets face it your son did it and you have to admit the facts.
Brahhh. So sad how he keeps on disappointing his father. Not even lickens would help.
This is going to put an even bigger dent in Maui tourism if the mainland news stations catch wind of this story.