A 22-year-old driver accused of trying to kill two police motorcycle officers Thursday was arrested on two counts of first-degree attempted murder.
He is a Marine Corps Base Hawaii resident with a record of speeding and racing.
Neither police nor Marine officials would confirm Thursday that he is a Marine.
But court records show the driver had been arrested for speeding on several occasions, once as fast as 116 mph in a 55 mph zone, and had pleaded no contest to racing on two occasions.
Police said no one was seriously injured in the incidents Thursday.
Police said the man was speeding in a silver Scion on the H-3 freeway in Kaneohe near Mokapu Saddle Road at 12:45 p.m. when he passed a motorcycle officer conducting traffic enforcement.
The officer pursued the sedan to the intersection of the H-3 and Kamehameha Highway, where the driver went off the road, police said. The officer approached the vehicle on foot, and the driver allegedly swerved the vehicle toward the officer before driving off, police said in an email.
Homicide Lt. Walter Calistro said the officer was trying to stop the man for speeding.
He said the driver intentionally tried to strike the solo bike officer with his car.
Another solo bike officer followed the Scion, which eventually headed toward Honolulu on Pali Highway. The Scion hit the median and a sign near the intersection of Pali Highway and Nuuanu Pali Drive, where it reversed and struck the pursuing solo bike officer, police said.
The driver then drove back toward Kailua and struck a vehicle near the intersection of Pali and Kamehameha highways shortly after 1 p.m.
Police arrested the man at 1:05 p.m. on suspicion of two counts of first-degree attempted murder.
Police officers conducted an investigation at that location, where three vehicles remained while the vehicles’ occupants waited.
The accident and investigation slowed afternoon Kailua-bound traffic on the Pali to a crawl.
At about 3:30 p.m. traffic had backed up for miles from Castle Junction (Pali and Kamehameha) all the way to the entrance of Nuuanu Pali Drive.
Police closed a stretch of one lane near Castle Junction where the crash occurred.
After a roughly two-hour closure, police opened up the left-turn, town-bound lane of Nuuanu Pali Drive just before 4:30 p.m.
The suspect pleaded no contest April 16 to racing Feb. 13, 2014, and received a deferred acceptance of a no-contest plea.
He was arrested Jan. 31, 2013, for traveling at 116 mph in a 55 mph zone and racing. He pleaded no contest to the racing charge and was granted a deferred acceptance of no contest.
On March 13, 2013, he pleaded no contest to a speeding charge, in which he was caught allegedly speeding 95 mph in a 55 mph zone on Nov. 18, 2012.
