Bad Blood Between Crime Boss And His Son’s Friend Started Over Stolen Watch, Plea Says 7 A year before Mike Miske blamed Jonathan Fraser for the fatal car accident that killed Miske’s son, he had Fraser beaten for stealing a gold Rolex, the agreement says. Miske is accused of later ordering Fraser’s murder.
In November 2014, Honolulu business owner and accused criminal gang leader Michael Miske Jr. blamed then 19-year-old Jonathan Fraser for stealing his gold Rolex watch. Fraser was the best friend of Miske’s only child, Caleb Miske, and the two young men and their girlfriends had been sharing a Waipahu apartment for most of the year.
It is the first indication of bad blood between Miske and Fraser a year before the critical auto accident that led to Caleb’s death, and 20 months before Fraser suddenly disappeared in July 2016. Prosecutors allege Miske directed a murder-for-hire conspiracy that led to Fraser’s kidnapping and death motivated by his mistaken belief that Fraser was driving the car in the fatal accident.
Miske and 10 co-defendants, including 33-year-old Kaulana Freitas, were named in a 22-count indictment in July 2020 alleging they were part of a group that conspired to engage in what prosecutors allege was a pattern of racketeering, including murder, kidnapping, assault, armed robbery, extortion, drug trafficking and bank fraud.
