Law Enforcement

Sherbow was arrested on Wednesday, August 28, 2013, in Tijuana, Mexico....

He said it would not have necessarily been easier to convict Deedy of the lesser manslaughter charge....

Honolulu ranks as one of the least safe driving cities, landing at number 128 on the list. According to the report, the average driver in Honolulu will experience an auto collision every 8.7 years, which is about 15 percent more likely than the national average....

results of the Hawaiʻi Police Department’s 2013 Community Satisfaction Survey and the police chief’s responses....

DCCA issued a Preliminary Order to Cease and Desist and Notice of Right to Hearing against a Hawaii businessman, David T. Low, and his company, Hawaii Capital Management, LLC...

In 1979, around the time that imprisonment rates began their sharp uptick, 314,000 people sat behind bars in the United States. As of mid-2013, that number stood at about 2 million....

Dr. Christopher B. Happy has been selected as Honolulu’s Chief Medical Examiner....

The Governor also signed bills that extend the voluntary foster care age to 21 as well as keep keiki safe from a parent who has been convicted of a sexual assault....

Lawsuit Seeks Transparency Before Implementation of a 'Bigger, Faster and Better' Biometrics System....

Bargaining Unit 14, to represent state law enforcement officers, and state and county ocean safety and water safety officers....

Nishimura was the highest-ranking Honolulu police officer charged with a federal felony offense....

There are currently nine youths between the ages of 13-17 in the Wrap Hawai‘i pilot program....

Despite this assurance, the record also reveals that the parties also made jokes about being “locked up” because of these games....

They soon settled into a formerly government-owned hotel where other foreign missions and international journalists were lodged, but had to move when a car bomb exploded in the hotel parking lot....

...a mandate to cut the legal blood alcohol limit from 0.08% to 0.05%.....

Will Hawaii’s soft-on-crime Judiciary allow an insanity plea to a Muslim claiming a religious justification for acts of violence or terrorism?

...average medical charges were nearly tripled among those who did not use seat belts ($11,043), compared to restrained passengers ($3,817)....

Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on May 6, 2013, against the U.S. Secret Service....

...Hawaii flags be flown at half-staff alongside the flags of the United States at state offices and agencies as well as the Hawaii National Guard from sunrise to sunset on Wednesday, May 15....

Attorney General Eric Holder presented the award to Ferguson-Brey during the National Crime Victims’ Rights Week awards ceremony....

...a former U.S. Army officer who works as a civilian employee of a defense contractor at U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) in Hawaii, has been arrested....

...it was noted that no one in that van had leg shackles on....

They enter the store with reusable bags and can more easily conceal items they steal.  It's tough to tell what a customer has paid for and what they may already have brought with them....

Gov. Neil Abercrombie today announced the appointment of Max Otani as deputy director of corrections with the state Department of Public Safety, effective immediately....

A number of tax department employees who were investigated in connection with the security breaches have been “arrested and relieved of their duties,” said state Rep. John Mizuno....

Agents recovered computer storage media, including a disk that contained images of a minor boy engaged in sexually explicit conduct....

...see the list of 1,000 well-known prison reform activists, elected Democrats, Hawaii County Prosecutor, sovereignty activists, religious leftists, green mailers, and current inmates who have signed on to this effort....

"This guy's been operating (as a commercial enterprise) for two or three decades." .... In other words, he's a drug dealer.

"VSE was unaware that despite DEI’s military ordnance background, the company had no experience with fireworks disposal.”

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) announces that its January 17, 2013, public meeting in Washington, DC, will be available via webcast....

As part of the campaign, DCCA has launched www.HFIC.Hawaii.gov....

The interim appointment fills a new seat in compliance with Act 139 of the 2012 Legislature, which increased Hawaii Paroling Authority members from three to five.

The managers who made this year’s list of America’s Worst Bosses were named in workplace lawsuits filed by their employees ....

County Attorneys barred planning inspectors from enforcing the law against Councilmember Tim Bynum for alleged zoning violations in order to influence Bynum’s vote on Mayor Bernard P. Carvalho Jr.’s TVR bill....

A prosecutor cannot use a criminal prosecution against a political rival in an attempt to intimidate him.... Incredibly, they made tape recordings discussing their plans and they joked on those tapes about committing perjury if ever caught.

Alexandra Telluselle is a Swedish national and self-described "citizen of the world" who was arrested by HPD for shoplifting from a Honolulu Foodland store August 18, 2011....

One of the guards slept through the ordeal, and another sat in a chair with a towel draped over his head, Cocklin says.