Prosecuting Attorney Kelden Waltjen announced that 34 year-old Andrew Woolen of Waikoloa, also known as Andrew Wooley, who was wanted on an outstanding Kona Grand Jury Indictment bench warrant is back in custody on Hawai‘i Island to face criminal charges after being escorted back to Hawai‘i Island from Kentucky by Hawai‘i County Prosecutor’s Investigators.

As the Indictment alleges, Woolen is charged with 8 counts including 6 counts of Sexual Assault in the First Degree, and a single count each of Sexual Assault in the Third Degree and Endangering the Welfare of a Minor in the First Degree (having the care and custody of a minor, did cause or permit the minor to inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise introduce into the minor’s body any substance listed in the Hawaii Revised Statutes as a Schedule I, II, III, or IV controlled substance).

The dates of these offenses range between October 2019 and January 2020. The most serious offenses, Sexual Assault in the First Degree, are all class A felony offenses and carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

The lead investigator was Detective Kevin Brodie, Area II Juvenile Aid Section, Hawai‘i Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Chase Murray.

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