Knockout at Maui beach caps turbulent stretch for Democratic candidate facing felony allegations
A Democratic congressional candidate knocked unconscious in a Maui beach fight now faces felony charges in three separate cases, including allegations he threatened a county employee with what appeared to be a gun and assaulted a hospital nurse.Kirill Basin, 40, was charged with two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening after the Aug.1 confrontation at Keawakapu Beach in South Kihei.Video captured an argument over music that escalated when Basin shoved Kama Homan and swung a beach chair at him.
Homan pushed the chair away and knocked Basin unconscious.HAWAII DEMOCRATIC HOUSE CANDIDATE FACES FELONY THREAT CHARGES AFTER BEACH FIGHT CAUGHT ON VIDEOA criminal complaint alleges Basin later threatened Homan with a knife.At Tuesday’s court hearing, a judge maintained Basin’s $1 million bail, ordered him not to contact Homan or four others and barred him from Keawakapu Beach and its parking lot.Kirill Basin, right, confronts another man during a beach altercation at Keawakapu Beach on Maui that was captured on video.
(Credit: Maile Stiller-Elliott via Storyful)But the beach confrontation was not Basin’s first trip through the criminal justice system this year.Four days later, prosecutors used the beach arrest to seek revocation of Basin’s bail in a separate case accusing him of assaulting a Maui Memorial Medical Center nurse.Prosecutors said Basin threatened beachgoers, telling them, "I’ll put you in the ground" and "I’ll kill you."HAWAII DEMOCRATIC HOUSE CANDIDATE FACES FELONY THREAT CHARGES AFTER BEACH FIGHT CAUGHT ON VIDEOHe then allegedly reached into a small black bag and said, "Do I have a gun? I’ll kill you," before producing and brandishing a knife as a beachgoer tried to de-escalate the confrontation, the Aug.5 court filing says.In the new beach case, Judge Christopher Dunn found probable cause to support a first-degree terroristic-threatening charge, the filing says.
In the separate hospital-assault case, a judge issued a $400,000 bench w...