Truck Driver Races Past Obama's Kailua Checkpoint: Secret Service Officer Aims Gun

HONOLULU — A man who allegedly sped through a checkpoint near President Barack Obama's vacation home has been charged with multiple criminal counts.

Leon Rodrigues was being held on $6,350 bail. He was charged with two counts of refusing an order to stop and reckless driving.

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Friday the 39-year-old was also charged with five contempt of court charges.

Honolulu police were looking for Rodrigues to serve him with warrants for alleged driving violations when Rodrigues saw them and sped off in his silver truck.

Rodrigues turned on to Kailuana Place, where the Secret Service has set up checkpoints to protect Obama, during the police chase.

Rodrigues was arrested Thursday after being cornered.

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Information from: Honolulu Star-Advertiser, http://www.staradvertiser.com

Comments

[Roses]

01:13 PM on 12/26/2010

Pictures of him looked completely stoned and drunk. He was fleeing and speeding from the cops.
Hard to outrun police on an island. Anyway, when he gets sober, he will have a great story to tell at his 12-step program.

[Joseph Scott]

01:48 PM on 12/26/2010

Yes, only in AA does your status go up in the group based on how horrific your experiences behind the wheel, or with their hands around the throats of their wives, or at the hands of correctional officers, or....
well, you get the gist.
So it goes...

[Jocalo]

01:54 PM on 12/26/2010

And you know this how?

[DougSmith]

10:38 AM on 12/26/2010

Politifact says the lie of the year was that the healthcare reform bill was “A government takeover of healthcare”

I DISAGREE

I think the lie of the year was “The economy began its nose dive when Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007”

How many times have we seen republicans telling that one? Besides being inaccurate about the timeline, they don’t seem to understand that the President can veto legislation.

Ask them what the democratic congress did in 2007-8 that caused the decline and they of course can’t tell you.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/mar/15/virginia-foxx/foxx-blames-recession-democratic-congressional-tak/

[MJinCanada]

05:09 PM on 12/26/2010

They are both awesome lies. Trying to blame the Democrats for the economy is like claiming your overspending started when your VISA bill arrived.

[PennsylvaniaPam]

10:12 PM on 12/26/2010

And what does this have to do with some numbskull blowing through the President's security line? Do you just randomly post your views about healthcare, hoping that someone will actually read it? Sorry. Not biting.

[Alexodia]

09:23 AM on 12/26/2010

If it had been Joe Millers check point they would have just shot him.

[Chise67]

05:37 AM on 12/26/2010

An example of how all repugs feel towards this Prez or anything he has anything to do with.

Ignore; don't stop; don't respect; don't recognize; do their own thing!!!

And Obama holding true to character will later pardon the guy!!!

[janefi]

04:14 AM on 12/26/2010

Oh to have a man in the White House.....at least W would have drawn his own gun!

[TheCrowing]

05:07 AM on 12/26/2010

Wow you're ignorant, it would've gone down the same way with Bush as it did with Obama. That's the purpose of the Secret Service. They draw the guns, the President stays in a safe place to wait out the danger. Sorry you don't understand how things work.

[janefi]

09:04 AM on 12/26/2010

I completely understand how things work.....clearly you don't understand commentary when you see it.

[MJinCanada]

05:12 PM on 12/26/2010

If you're being sarcastic, another commenter and I worked out a sarcasm smilie: ;-J

The J represents tongue wedged in cheek.

[GeoLee]

02:22 AM on 12/26/2010

I think there are many , many voters who once they hear of his involvement in the Med8care Fraud might just see him for the extraordinary less than ethical person he is.

[pammiethekid]

10:51 AM on 12/26/2010

Here's one voter who'd like you to provide your source on this charge. Googled it myself, and nothing about Obama's involvement in medicare fraud comes up. Of course that could be due to a conspiracy of silence on the part of the news media, who surely don't want to make money off a story like that.

[pphhrogg]

12:17 PM on 12/26/2010

Care to share with us EXACTLY what Medicare fraud that Obama is involved with?

Of course you won't, since you KNOW you lied.

[reveal5]

07:52 PM on 12/25/2010

There's a talk radio goof  in Denver who makes his living by being a birther. They are all over the country. It isn't about proof. It's about herding the fringe into neat little political groupings that work in favor of the GOP.  It isn't about truth. It's about saddling up the fringe in the interests of Wall Street.  It isn't about reality. The fact that President Obama's mother was an American citizen makes the President a citizen, no matter where he might have been born....And notice that the news media just chooses to overlook this fact.  If Barrack Hussein Obama had been born in Africa, he would still be an American citizen, because his mother was.  Again, notice that the news media does not discuss this point. And then ask yourself Why.  And then think about the Corporate advfertising that pays the media's salaries...the Corporate media.

[SallyBaughn]

06:31 PM on 12/25/2010

So, the Secret Service Man Drew His Gun. Why didn't he shoot it? I'm thinking that would have stopped any chase that was going on; and, besides, you shouldn't draw your weapon unless you plan to use it. That's stupidity on the part of the guy who drew the gun.

[hang319]

08:01 PM on 12/25/2010

thank god someone has more sense about guns than you're showing

[psbintl]

08:18 PM on 12/25/2010

Yeah that!

[psbintl]

08:19 PM on 12/25/2010

So glad you were not the one pointing that gun! Geeze!

[wildbil546]

04:45 PM on 12/25/2010

People must hate Obama coming here every year for the stuff they have to put up with.

[Beatriz09]

05:31 PM on 12/25/2010

Yeah ... like the police catching a criminal they were trying to catch for some time already ... ;-)

[tulsey]

05:38 PM on 12/25/2010

He didn't want to use up all his frequent flyer miles goin' back home to Kenya.

[trescher]

06:11 PM on 12/25/2010

Do you believe in Santa too you dip?

[GlobalSouthRising]

07:33 PM on 12/25/2010

you only believe in what you wanna believe. I only hope that you won't vote, in 2012, or ever again, you're clearly not mentally competent (or at least very information deprived).

[revko]

03:49 PM on 12/25/2010

I don't believe the truck was from Hawaii and demand to see the original purchase order

[psbintl]

08:20 PM on 12/25/2010

LOL!

[hackerblaster]

02:26 PM on 12/25/2010

He seems very upset. Maybe he just needs a hug.

[newtom]

01:59 PM on 12/25/2010

Talk about making a wrong turn!!!

[parlimentMike]

12:37 PM on 12/25/2010

Headline more appropriately would read Obama Vacations Near Worlds Wildest Police Chases Set.

[Billy D]

10:24 AM on 12/25/2010

and to think, Obama was ready to enjoy his first real vacation in weeks.

[newtom]

01:57 PM on 12/25/2010

Unlike your GWB who only worked once every few weeks.

[enigma2]

02:42 PM on 12/25/2010

Imagine how much more havoc he could have heaped upon the country, if he had been on the job more.

[wildbil546]

04:47 PM on 12/25/2010

He didn't golf every few days like Obama though. Do you know Obama has golfed more times in 2 years than Bush did in 8?

[Reganite1]

10:51 PM on 12/25/2010

Days....first real vacation in days

[Roadrun]

09:52 AM on 12/25/2010

First you don't pay some tickets so you can get Christmas presents, then Five Oh spots you and there really aren't that many roads to choose from. Too quickly you transgress from "Book 'em Dano" to "In the Line of Fire."

That's just a very bad day. I don't care who you are, that's a very bad day!

[tulsey]

04:49 PM on 12/25/2010

Definition of a criminal: someone stupid enought to be caught by the police.