Police are recommending criminal charges be pressed against a 22-year-old man who crashed his vehicle on Egan Drive last Wednesday.
The Juneau Police Department said they are recommending reckless driving, reckless endangerment and driving without a license charges against Silver Maake. All three of those charges are misdemeanors.
JPD confirmed that charges were pending on their website’s “Ask A Dispatcher” section in response to a Juneau resident who complained that his family and others “could have been killed due to the driver’s negligence.”
JPD spokeswoman Cindee Brown-Mills did not return calls on Tuesday seeking further comment.
District Attorney David Brower told the Empire that his office has not received the file from JPD yet.
The police said in an earlier release that Maake lost control of his 2013 Chevrolet Camaro, and it left the roadway and struck a light pole before coming to a stop against a pedestrian bridge along Egan Drive near the Glacier Highway intersection by McDonald’s.
Both Maake and a passenger — whom police identified as his cousin Siaosi Maake, 23 — were taken to the hospital after the crash.
Siaosi Maake required further medical care and was medevaced to Harborview Medical Center that night, but he has since been released. Harborview spokeswoman Liz Hunter said he was discharged on Sunday.
Police said at the time that speed was a suspected factor in the crash.
• Contact reporter Emily Russo Miller at 523-2263 or at emily.miller@juneauempire.com.
Comments (54)
Add commentGrow Up
To all of you who are creating drama, GROW UP! I understand that is what Juneau is all about, but let it go. No one cares about your personal lives (or Silver's) for that matter. What matters is what is ACTUALLY WRITTEN IN THE ARTICLE. As of now, Silver will have to face the consequences like an adult. More than anything we should be thankful that Sia is recovering and will be okay and also that no one else was invovled or injured. And until more information is given, please keep your personal opinions about Silver and his life to yourselves. It's completely childish and quite annoying.
Goodoljuno- I don't know, you
Goodoljuno- I don't know, you sound pretty jealous to me....
Personal life
Hello all,
Time to reign it in — there is a lot of unsubstantiated information being posted here — it's time to stop as it is a violation of our posting standards.
Please feel free to review our rules of civility for clarity. See them here: http://juneauempire.com/posting-rules.
Thank you for understanding.
JNUKara
You are delusional, I'm not the mother of Silver's daughter. But I know the mother, I know Silver. That is all.
Abby
THANK YOU!!!
Ok guys,
So I'm confused does he or does he not have a sugar mama? Does he do drugs or not? Is he the father of that little girl or not?
P.S. ULI_ULI92 For the love of all that is holy LEARN HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH!
Where can I...
...get me one of them 'suga mamas'? Craigs List?
What is this about a sugar
What is this about a sugar mama? This sounds intriguing. She buys cars, trucks and snow machines? Where can I find her? She sounds wonderful!
Judge not, that ye be not
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Matthew 7
A quick check on
the CourtView website shows this is the second time young Silver has been "caught" speeding (first time 10-19mph above posted 55mph) in the last year and a half or so. Guilty Conviction After No Contest Plea.
Seems like he didn't learn from the first time. Is that why he wasn't a licensed driver?
There are a couple other charges also, which leads me to believe he isn't the angel, some of his supporters on this thread think he is.
bunch of hypocrites
Throw the book at him?!?! He nearly killed his cousin & best friend, wrecked and car and now has some financial restitution to make, and you want 3 misdemeanors thrown on top? What job would you be expecting him to going out for with a record like that? What would you be saying if he was your son? Exactly! He has issues that need to be worked through as we all do. If he cousin isn't pressing charges for assault, then all you need to buggar off. Given his up bringing he's doing a lot better than Ryan West or other kids he played football with.
Lighten up, he didn't hurt his daughter or any of you, get over your mob mentality and let him be. Majority of you are no better, only drive 55, 65?!?! Cops routinely drive 65, he just wasn't prepared for the weather, a mistake he won't make again. If he's to be tried criminally, who did he hurt? Sia won't press charges, fine him, community service him and move on.
He will face his consequences
As they arise .. as for worrying about whether he has a Sugar Momma or not .. ITS NOT ANYONE'S BUSINESS ... He made a mistake and he nearly paid it with his life and that of his cousin's. Should they bring charges against Silver than that is Silver's fate, As far as the toxicology accounts, WAIT for it!!!
"for the person to say Learn to speak ENGLISH!! Rude much!!! ... How offensive" That seems to be a nice low blow for some of you to go and offend someone of the way they speak or write... ... no matter what he will have to face what is heading his way ... I said in the other article Thank God he did not "HURT OR KILL" anyone else!!! This is his FIGHT now!!!
Pray for everyone involved .....
If nothing else, I think the
If nothing else, I think the posts on this article make one thing very clear. Our schools need to spend more time concentrating on the language arts.
akbrdguru
Eloquently true!
Desk Jocky tough guy
Thankfully his fate doesn't fall on the shallow opinions of internet trolls. Accidents happen all the time, how many people have been injured trying to turn in to Fred Meyers? Keep blowing hard of useless anecdotes and hollow threats no one cares, you are irrelevant, which is why you're probably writing from you useless government job.
Humanbeing - You sound real
Humanbeing - You sound real big and bad behind your computer screen.
Internet Troll
I apologize to everyone for feeding the troll, sadly, one who's finality to argument is empty threats and faux violence has no place in civilized discussion. Thankfully our judicial system as imperfect as it is, is still infinity wiser then an internet forum bully.
humanbeing
Seriously dude...You said, "you'll pull they're cousin out of his head and send his teeth careening out his other end! THEN, you'll call the cops as you hold him by the scruff of his neck". If you're really that tough, why don't you let the boy's relatives know your real name. Oh wait! my bad, you're only tough behind screen right? Man, get a life lol.
Abby.
Abby. Please keept this forum in the running for worst example of Juneau for 2013! I know the competition can be tought some years, but I think this conversation has a shot at taking the prize.
It has trolls on both sides, anger, lies, pain. It has normally good people trudging the trenches and bad people in peak form.
This competition is so fun!
His life, not yours...
Its funny how everyone has no problem sitting there and judging Silver for what has happened. Im not saying what he did was okay, but youre NOT the one whom has to live with the consequences, he is. Youre not the one that has to carry that burden. I know him and I know he is NOT proud of what happened, and that he wishes he could go back and would have been more cautious.
Stop judging, stay out of his business. Yes, many others couldve have been injured, but theyre not. Lets be glad it wasnt worst that it was. Lets be glad that no one, including Silver and Sia lost their lives and they are both recovering well. With the support of their families and friends they will both be home safe soon.
Like another user commented, if youre not the one that got injured, sit down. No one in this forum have any say on what should happen to him.
No one is perfect, we all make mistakes, some greater than others, but we do not have the right or the TIME to sit here at judge someone else.
Prayers to the Ma'ake family.
Naked Car Crash???
Why is that story not in today's paper??? Why did KINY not state his name... It seems to me that this paper likes to pick and choose whose name should be dragged through the mud...
Although
Maybe the JPD refused to tell them... Either way it would be nice if we new what rules/procedures are for keeping names anonymous...
Sorry 907Teine,
when someone puts others outside of themselves in danger, by repeatedly using poor judgement behind the wheel, their business becomes ours.
It's not like he was riding his skateboard in a restricted area....
More cautious?.....You do understand he wasn't legally driving with reckless abandon in the first place? How do you drive without a license, more cautiously?
It's time for him to wise up and fly right, and I hope he does. But I'm not going to hold my breath, considering his legal history.
Car owner
On jpd's website Ask Dispatcher it says he was not the owner of the car but the owner had insurance.
Some people..
It's so funny to me how some people now adays, waste their times judging others. When we all have better things to do, like minding our own business lol.