Overview
- A witness video that circulated Tuesday shows Basin arguing after a 61-year-old man asked him to turn down loud music and then being knocked unconscious by a single punch.
- Maui police arrested Basin and charged him with two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening and set bail at $1 million.
- Witnesses and reports say Basin implied he had a gun, threatened to shoot the man’s wife, produced a knife during the confrontation, and police recovered a knife reportedly tossed into the water.
- The beach arrest follows a May incident in Wailuku in which Basin was accused of threatening county workers and comes after an Instagram post he made the day before claiming police had 'tortured' him.
- Basin is a Democratic challenger to Rep. Jill Tokuda and the arrest and allegations add legal risk and political scrutiny that could affect his campaign and public standing.