HILO, Hawaii (AP) - Hawaii state conservation officers are seeking a suspect who placed rocks on the access road to the Big Island’s Mauna Kea.
Division of Conservation and Resource Enforcement officers said in a statement Tuesday that a shirtless man wearing board shorts and slippers was captured on surveillance cameras just before the rocks appeared.
The say the rocks created a safety hazard because they were placed in the downhill lane of the access road on a sharp corner.
The summit of Mauna Kea hosts a number of telescopes and is the construction site of the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope project. Mauna Kea is Hawaii’s highest peak is considered sacred by some Native Hawaiians.
Authorities ask anyone with information about the incident to contact authorities.
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