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Wednesday, June 25, 2025 |
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Bills that passed the Lege now on the edge
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:18 AM :: 380 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement
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... SB66, which would create a permitting “shot clock” and allow third-party permit approval if the 60-day processing deadline is not met; and HB126, which would reform the state’s civil asset forfeiture process ....
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025 |
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Hawaii Child Molester Caught by Feds -- gets 41 years
By News Release @ 2:58 PM :: 990 Views :: Hawaii County , Law Enforcement
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... Houghton conducted weekly piano lessons with the children virtually from his residence in Hawaii. On several occasions, Houghton used the virtual piano lessons to persuade the children to perform sexual acts ....
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Thursday, May 8, 2025 |
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DLE Upgrades License Plate Readers
By News Release @ 6:01 PM :: 1087 Views :: Law Enforcement, Police
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... If a license plate is deemed actionable, it can be added to a hotlist—triggering real-time alerts the moment the vehicle is detected by a Cloudrunner camera ....
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Thursday, April 24, 2025 |
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Former death row inmate convicted of sex trafficking in Hawaii
By Court House News @ 6:43 PM :: 1256 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement
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... McCoy faces a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, as well as mandatory restitution. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 18 ....
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 |
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SB295: Tougher Penalties for TRO Violations
By News Release @ 7:41 PM :: 918 Views :: Family, Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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... The bill increases penalties for individuals who violate temporary restraining orders (TROs) and orders for protection (OFPs) ....
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Monday, April 21, 2025 |
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Town Hall: What to do about Illegal Fireworks?
By Joni Kamiya @ 12:01 AM :: 1194 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... We walked over to the offenders and called them over to talk and asked them to stop shooting their aerials over our home and shed. Thankfully, they obliged ....
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Monday, April 14, 2025 |
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Former death row inmate on trial for sex trafficking charges in Hawaii
By Court House News @ 9:06 PM :: 2286 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement
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... running a sex trafficking ring involving four women and one minor ....
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Monday, April 7, 2025 |
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Deadline for Real ID Hawai‘i driver’s license is coming soon
By News Release @ 11:55 PM :: 1359 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement, Tourism
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... Beginning May 7, 2025, every air traveler 18 years of age and older must have a Real ID-compliant driver’s license or state-issued identification card to board domestic flights and enter some federal buildings ....
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Saturday, April 5, 2025 |
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Corruption: Civil Suit Against Kaneshiro Thrown Out of Court
By Court House News @ 2:59 AM :: 2449 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... a federal judge ruled Friday many of her claims were barred by statute of limitations ....
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Saturday, March 15, 2025 |
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State Let Felon Back out on Streets--but now the Feds Have Got Him
By News Release @ 1:34 AM :: 1122 Views :: Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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... If convicted of the charged offense, Pham faces up to fifteen years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 ....
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Friday, March 14, 2025 |
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AG Launches New Child Support Payment App
By News Release @ 1:16 AM :: 825 Views :: Family, Law Enforcement
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... greater flexibility and convenience in managing their child support cases ....
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Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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Waianae Business Owner Charged in Fireworks Case
By News Release @ 11:50 PM :: 570 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement
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... Importation of Fireworks Without a Valid License or Permit, a class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine ....
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Thursday, March 13, 2025 |
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Man arrested in Utah nursing home may not be extradited for 1977 McKinley HS murder
By Selected News Articles @ 2:55 AM :: 1100 Views :: Honolulu County, Education K-12, Hawaii History, Law Enforcement
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... Hawaii authorities are reportedly deciding to not extradite Castro from Utah, according to a spokesperson for the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office ....
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025 |
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Senate Fireworks Bills on the Move
By News Release @ 1:14 AM :: 956 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... SB222, SB227, SB1324 ....
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025 |
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Lawsuit Filed Against State After Latest CWS Child-Torture Death
By Andrew Walden @ 10:24 PM :: 1747 Views :: Family, Law Enforcement
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... allegedly CWS and PACT informed four times but did nothing before death of Sarai Perez-Rivera ....
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Saturday, March 1, 2025 |
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Safety cameras to begin sending warnings for speed March 1
By News Release @ 2:34 PM :: 1052 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement
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... safety camera systems at 10 downtown Honolulu intersections will begin issuing warnings for speed on Saturday, March 1, 2025 ....
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 |
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Extradition to Hawaii ordered in 1977 murder case
By Court House News @ 3:23 PM :: 902 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... Authorities arrested Gideon Castro at a Utah nursing home and charged him in the 1977 murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara at McKinley HS ....
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Monday, February 24, 2025 |
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Hawaii Can Auction Off Your Car Without Ever Convicting You
By Selected News Articles @ 2:50 PM :: 1163 Views :: Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... Civil forfeiture allows the government of Hawaii to take your property and sell it for profit without proving you did anything wrong ....
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025 |
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'Malicious Prosecution' Kaneshiro Tries to Beat Back Civil Suit
By Court House News @ 12:12 PM :: 1673 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... the campaign contributions were bribes meant to secure Mau's prosecution, a federal jury eventually found that the donations were legitimate political contributions ....
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Thursday, February 13, 2025 |
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“You cannot run from the facts” Miske half-brother gets 20 years
By News Release @ 12:27 AM :: 1262 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... Judge Watson found Stancil to be “among the most culpable” of those in the Miske Enterprise ....
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Sunday, February 9, 2025 |
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Feds Collect $1.7M in Hawaii Forfeitures
By News Release @ 2:03 PM :: 886 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement
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... U.S. Attorney’s Office Collects $1,742,014.13 in Civil and Criminal Actions in Fiscal Year 2024 ....
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Saturday, February 8, 2025 |
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SB1150 Would Legalize Child Kidnapping for Sex Change
By Selected News Articles @ 2:11 PM :: 4906 Views :: Family, Health Care, Law Enforcement
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... Set for a February 11, 2025, hearing before Senate HHS/CPN committees, SB1150 grants a de-facto immunity and asylum in Hawaii for any kidnapper who claims to be helping a child receive so-called ‘gender-affirming’ treatments ....
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Thursday, February 6, 2025 |
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Thursday, January 30, 2025 |
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Puna Man Arrested in Alleged Neo-Nazi Child Molestation Ring
By News Release @ 10:36 PM :: 1543 Views :: Hawaii County , Law Enforcement
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... Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge, 41, of Pahoa, Hawaii, was arrested this morning pursuant to a grand jury indictment ....
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Thursday, January 30, 2025 |
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Jail Guard Pleads Guilty to Importing Illegal Fireworks--via jail mailroom
By News Release @ 2:21 AM :: 1324 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement
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“While working as an adult corrections officer, Mr. Fernandez had almost 95 pounds of aerial fireworks mailed to OCCC, the very correctional facility that he had a duty to secure....”
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Friday, January 24, 2025 |
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Hawaii AG: Local Law Enforcement Cannot be Commandeered by Trump
By News Release @ 3:41 AM :: 865 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement
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... addressing state and local involvement in federal immigration enforcement ....
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Thursday, January 23, 2025 |
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Report: Hawaii Jail Guards Under Extreme Stress Due to Mandatory OT, Understaffing
By News Release @ 3:25 PM :: 938 Views :: Labor, Law Enforcement
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... Many staff cited unsustainable work conditions marked by mandatory overtime, insufficient staff, and inadequate wellness resources ....
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025 |
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Trump Directs Coast Guard 'Surge'
By News Release @ 1:05 AM :: 1314 Views :: Law Enforcement, Military
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... Alaska, Hawai’i, the U.S. territories of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands ....
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 |
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David K. Porter Named Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Honolulu Field Office
By News Release @ 1:23 PM :: 993 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... Mr. Porter most recently served as the chief of staff for the Deputy Director at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. ....
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 |
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DLE Director Quits
By News Release @ 3:03 PM :: 1522 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement, Police
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... Green announces nomination of HPD Major Mike Lambert as the next Director of the State Department of Law Enforcement ....
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Saturday, January 11, 2025 |
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Deport Illegal Thieves? Hawaii Congressional Delegation Votes 'Nay'
By Selected News Articles @ 5:37 PM :: 1112 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Law Enforcement
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... The U.S. Senate has voted 84-9 to begin debate on the Laken Riley Act. Schatz and Hirono are among the nine ....
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Saturday, January 11, 2025 |
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Hawaii attorney general questions Walmart's retreat from DEI
By Selected News Articles @ 2:10 PM :: 1064 Views :: Labor, Law Enforcement
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... Walmart reportedly is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies to focus on being more "belonging." ....
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Friday, January 10, 2025 |
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Not Everybody is Leaving: COVID fraud helps one family move to Kapolei
By News Release @ 10:32 PM :: 1346 Views :: Law Enforcement, COVID-19
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... as a result of the false and fraudulent applications, they received $1,365,000 in PPP loan funds ....
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Wednesday, January 8, 2025 |
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Hawaii doctor under investigation for murder in woman’s euthanasia death
By Selected News Articles @ 11:31 PM :: 2130 Views :: Law Enforcement, Life
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... the woman was starting to choke and motioned for the doctor to stop — but he continued ....
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Wednesday, January 8, 2025 |
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Fireworks: Culture and Traditions?
By Joni Kamiya @ 2:30 AM :: 1593 Views :: Hawaii History, Law Enforcement
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... people trying to culturally appropriate customs to justify their inconsiderate and dangerous behaviors with leaders having to be “sensitive” when discussing it ....
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Monday, January 6, 2025 |
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US Atty Connors Resigns After Successfully Stopping Hawaii Corruption Prosecutions
By News Release @ 11:15 PM :: 1830 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... Miske, Dawson and Choy are dead and all the investigations are squelched ....
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Saturday, January 4, 2025 |
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Report: CWS Hurts Rather than Helps
By News Release @ 1:08 PM :: 1568 Views :: Ethics, Family, Law Enforcement
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... People inside and outside of CWS describe an uncoordinated system that works in silos and lacks proper resources and accountability. ...
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Saturday, December 21, 2024 |
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After KPT Shootout, Meth-Head Finally Catches a Federal Case
By News Release @ 3:45 PM :: 1381 Views :: Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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... Feds, once again, doing the job the State Judiciary can/will not ....
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Thursday, December 19, 2024 |
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Hawaii Preferred Port of Entry for 'Birth Tourism' Scheme
By News Release @ 2:54 PM :: 1525 Views :: World News, Law Enforcement
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... “birth tourism” scheme that charged Chinese clients tens of thousands of dollars to help them give birth in the United States to obtain birthright U.S. citizenship for their children ....
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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 |
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FBI Honolulu Publishes 2024 Fiscal Year in Review Document
By News Release @ 10:04 PM :: 990 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... highlights FBI Honolulu’s casework in counterintelligence, counterterrorism, cyberstalking, drug and gun crimes, organized crime, violent crimes against children, white-collar crimes, and more ....
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Monday, December 16, 2024 |
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024 |
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Mariana Islands a Center for Chinese Birth Tourism
By Selected News Articles @ 11:00 AM :: 1861 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement
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“...Since 2009, Communist Chinese passport holders have been permitted to sidestep the U.S.. visa requirements to enter the northern Mariana islands through categorical parole....”
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Monday, December 9, 2024 |
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ANOTHER ONE: Alleged CEO Assassin is Honolulu Resident
By Court House News @ 3:36 PM :: 2213 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement
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... 2nd alleged assassin this year with Hawaii connections ....
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 |
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Miske’s death may terminate some criminal proceedings
By News Release @ 1:23 AM :: 2155 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement, Police
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"Presently, there is no finding of foul play or suicide."
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Monday, December 2, 2024 |
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How Family Got Justice Decades After Outgoing 19-Year-Old Was Killed in Her Hawaii Apartment
By Video @ 4:38 PM :: 1592 Views :: Hawaii History, Law Enforcement, Police
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... Nancy Anderson's murder — which was Hawaii's oldest cold case — is the focus of the Dec. 2 episode of 'People Magazine Investigates' on ID ....
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Tuesday, November 5, 2024 |
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ACLU Challenges HPD Drugged-Driving Arrests
By News Release @ 12:42 PM :: 2134 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement, Police, Drugs
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... Fepuleai—who does not drink or do drugs—blew a 0.000. But officers said they now suspected he was on drugs. Officers then arrested Mr. Fepuleai for DUI ....
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