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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 |
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Police Name Suspect in Dana Ireland Murder
By News Release @ 1:21 AM :: 2152 Views :: Hawaii County , Hawaii History, Law Enforcement, Police
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... Earlier this year, an FBI agent from the Honolulu Field Office contacted police investigators with the names of some people who could potentially be identified as “Unknown Male #1.” ....
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Thursday, July 18, 2024 |
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Miske Convicted
By Court House News @ 11:50 PM :: 1876 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement, Police
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... convicted of 13 of the 16 remaining charges against him, including murder in aid of racketeering, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit assault ....
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Saturday, July 6, 2024 |
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After Veto Threat, Green Signs Sara Yara Bill into law
By News Release @ 2:47 PM :: 1510 Views :: Education K-12, Law Enforcement
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... bill motivated by charges against a man who had no driver’s license and 164 traffic citations when he was arrested in the hit-and-run death of a 16-year-old McKinley High School student ....
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Thursday, July 4, 2024 |
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Operation 'Shine the Light' Rescues 11 Missing Children on Oahu
By News Release @ 4:33 PM :: 2709 Views :: Honolulu County, Family, Law Enforcement
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“...This operation required quick action and decisions and DHS is thankful for all involved with the successful location of these 11 children and youth....”
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Sunday, June 30, 2024 |
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Supreme Court overrules landmark 'Chevron' precedent on government authority
By Court House News @ 3:39 AM :: 1852 Views :: Environment, Health Care, Labor, Land Use, Law Enforcement, Small Business
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... For 40 years, the Chevron precedent has been the backbone of administrative law, limiting judicial decision-making in favor of agency 'expertise' ....
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Friday, June 28, 2024 |
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How Mexican cartels target Hawaii with meth, fentanyl
By Selected News Articles @ 7:04 PM :: 1970 Views :: Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... Sinaloa and its rival, the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, known as CJNG — run drug pipelines through California and Nevada to flood Oahu with meth and other drugs, including fentanyl ....
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024 |
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Judge pares down charges against accused Hawaii crime boss
By Court House News @ 4:48 AM :: 1536 Views :: Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... On Monday, Watson acquitted Miske of the attempted murder of Lindsey Kinney, along with associated racketeering and firearm charges ....
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Saturday, May 25, 2024 |
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Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Espionage
By News Release @ 2:16 AM :: 1083 Views :: World News, Law Enforcement
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... Both Ma and CC #1 worked for the CIA — CC #1 from 1967 until 1983, Ma from 1982 until 1989 ....
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024 |
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Latest Cockfighting Arrests ‘No Surprise’ after Hawaii Senate Fails on HB 1980
By News Release @ 6:33 PM :: 1887 Views :: Hawaii County , Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... Five people were arrested over the weekend during what police say was a cockfight raid at a gathering on the Kaloli Drive end of the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision in Puna ....
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Saturday, May 18, 2024 |
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Defend Hawaii: Miske Lawyer Celebrates Kaneshiro Corruption Victory, Tells Feds to Pack Up and Leave
By Court House News @ 2:06 AM :: 6073 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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... The quirky panel of 14 jurors had been coordinating outfits by color most days throughout the duration of trial ....
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Friday, May 17, 2024 |
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Oahu Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Fraudulent Check Scheme
By News Release @ 6:00 PM :: 1310 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... Judge Helen Gillmor sentenced Phong Duy Le, 49, of Honolulu, Hawaii to 29 months in federal prison ....
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024 |
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Closing arguments begin in high-profile Hawaii bribery trial
By Court House News @ 2:40 PM :: 1942 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... trial of former Honolulu prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro, businessman Dennis Mitsunaga and co-defendants facing accusations of conspiracy to commit fraud and bribery ....
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024 |
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Final witness testifies as former prosecutor’s corruption trial draws to a close in Hawaii
By Court House News @ 2:22 PM :: 1897 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... Prosecutors say businessman Dennis Mitsunaga used hefty campaign contributions to exert influence over Hawaii's political landscape ....
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Monday, May 13, 2024 |
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Feds Sentence Another Hawaii Fraudster
By News Release @ 9:21 PM :: 1708 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... DeLeon, a former Big Island resident, is required to pay $1,246,850 in restitution to the victims ....
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Monday, May 6, 2024 |
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40,457 Unregistered Cars on Oahu Streets
By News Release @ 3:08 AM :: 2209 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement
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... 73 percent of those vehicles with expired tags have not been registered in at least five years ....
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 |
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Hawaii Least Drug Problem in USA
By Wallet Hub @ 5:24 AM :: 2254 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... but Hawaii has the 5th-highest proportion of teenagers offered drugs on school grounds ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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HB2526 Goes to Governor: Felony for repeat offenders who drive without a license
By News Release @ 4:26 PM :: 1739 Views :: Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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... after a McKinley High School student's life was claimed by a habitual traffic offender ....
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
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DCCA Revokes Miske Termite License--14 Cases of Price Gouging
By News Release @ 2:58 AM :: 1855 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... License revocation, $35,000 fine, $22,114.56 restitution ....
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
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City’s DMV employees gearing up for LGBTQ+ sensitivity training
By News Release @ 4:37 PM :: 1640 Views :: Homelessness, Law Enforcement
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... employees will be trained to use an individual’s chosen names and preferred gender pronouns when renewing a Hawaiʻi driver’s license or motor vehicle registration ....
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024 |
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Victim of bribery scheme testifies in Hawaii prosecutor corruption case
By Court House News @ 5:31 AM :: 2435 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... A former Honolulu prosecutor is accused of accepting nearly $50,000 from a local engineering firm to go after a former employee with criminal charges ....
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Thursday, April 11, 2024 |
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SB2706: 'Expungement' will help sex offenders find work in Hawaii schools
By Andrew Walden @ 8:44 PM :: 2958 Views :: Education K-12, Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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... Examples of offenses which may be eligible for automatic expungement include domestic abuse, harassment by stalking, certain sex offenses, sexual exploitation, promoting pornography for minors, and habitual intoxicated driving ....
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Thursday, March 28, 2024 |
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Criminal Escapes Kauai Jail, Dead After Run Over by Car
By News Release @ 5:47 PM :: 3930 Views :: Kauai County, Law Enforcement
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... The driver of the vehicle failed to stop to render aid and was last seen making a U-turn toward Kapa‘a ....
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Thursday, March 28, 2024 |
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Hawaii #1 for Jaywalking Tickets
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:03 AM :: 2393 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement
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... Hawaii hands out an average of 5,000 jaywalking tickets per year, the highest per capita in the nation, but that has done virtually nothing to promote pedestrian safety ....
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Sunday, March 17, 2024 |
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Lets Cut Jaywalkers Some Slack
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:58 AM :: 2126 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... a bill moving through the Legislature that would let pedestrians cross the street carefully and responsibly, regardless of whether they are in a crosswalk ....
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Saturday, March 16, 2024 |
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HB2079 Would Legalize Child Kidnapping for Sex Change
By Selected News Articles @ 7:09 PM :: 12679 Views :: Family, Health Care, Law Enforcement
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... to allow legal protections for any non-parent with sufficient access and means to remove a child of any age from their home state, and to bring them to Hawaii in the name of receiving “Gender Affirming Care” ....
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Friday, March 15, 2024 |
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Hawaii Homeland Security Announces Plan for 'Targeted Violence Prevention'
By News Release @ 12:59 AM :: 2356 Views :: Education K-12, Law Enforcement
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"...a realistic and achievable path to reducing targeted violence in our schools and throughout our community....”
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Friday, March 8, 2024 |
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Soft on Crime: After 41-year Crime Spree, Child Molesting Meth Dealer Gets Something Besides Probation
By News Release @ 3:07 PM :: 3137 Views :: Hawaii County , Judiciary, Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... (he got probation after being) found with methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia, and an unconscious minor who had no pants and displayed physical indications of sexual assault. At that time, Kinoshita was out on bail for two state felony cases ....
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024 |
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Feds Collect $6.6M in Hawaii Forfeitures
By News Release @ 6:14 PM :: 2177 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement
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... $6,360,465.69 was collected in criminal actions and $278,322.42 was collected in civil actions ....
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Monday, March 4, 2024 |
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State Hospital pretends to make changes in wake of slaying of staffer
By News Release @ 12:59 PM :: 2113 Views :: Health Care, Law Enforcement
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... DOH conducted a full safety and security review of the State Operated Specialized Residential Program (SOSRP) and Hawai‘i State Hospital (HSH) facilities ....
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Friday, February 9, 2024 |
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Oahu Man Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison for Sexual Exploitation of a Child
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 1105 Views :: Family, Law Enforcement
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... between at least August 2018 and November 2020, Kaaiawaawa repeatedly sexually assaulted a child who was six to eight years old ....
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Thursday, January 25, 2024 |
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024 |
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Monday, January 22, 2024 |
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Hawaii Bill Would Reform Civil Asset Forfeiture Process, Opt State Out of Federal Program
By Selected News Articles @ 3:22 AM :: 1717 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... reform the state’s asset forfeiture process to require a conviction in most cases ....
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Friday, January 5, 2024 |
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Hawaii Attorney General Writes Bill to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
By News Release @ 10:31 PM :: 2438 Views :: Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... Also included was draft legislation intended to minimize these risks and promote the public welfare to the greatest extent possible, should the Legislature choose to legalize cannabis ....
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Friday, December 29, 2023 |
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Task Force makes another large seizure of illegal fireworks
By News Release @ 2:43 PM :: 1677 Views :: Law Enforcement
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... To date, the task force has seized nearly 70,000 pounds of illegal fireworks. ...
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Thursday, December 14, 2023 |
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Hawai‘i State Capitol gets metal detectors
By News Release @ 11:25 PM :: 2050 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement, Second Amendment
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... Beginning Monday, December 18, the Hawai‘i State Capitol will join 37 other state capitols that have incorporated metal detection into their security measures ....
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 |
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Former Correctional Officer Receives 42 Months in Prison for Smuggling Drugs into Oahu Community Correctional Center
By News Release @ 5:02 PM :: 2194 Views :: Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... Ascencio worked as a correctional officer at the Oahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) from 2000 until his arrest in 2020 for these charges ....
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Thursday, November 30, 2023 |
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Up in Smoke? AG's Plan to turn Illegal Drug Dealers into Legal Tax-Paying Entrepreneurs
By Rep Gene Ward @ 10:58 PM :: 2131 Views :: Law Enforcement, Taxes, Drugs
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... In nearly every location where recreational marijuana is legal, criminal syndicates, far more than the state government, are cashing in on the "green gold rush" ....
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023 |
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Special Master: Presiding Judge Had ‘100s of Pages of Disqualifying Information’ in Kalua Case
By Selected News Articles @ 12:31 PM :: 3533 Views :: Family, Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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... evidence included the criminal records of the parents for assault and drug use, filed bankruptcy documents, and the absence of a record of children of their own ....
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Sunday, November 19, 2023 |
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VIDEO: Super-weird vigilante vessel known as the "Jones Act Enforcer"
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:03 PM :: 2468 Views :: Jones Act, Law Enforcement
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... the "Jones Act Enforcer" tracks down and identifies violators of the 1920 protectionist federal maritime law known as the Jones Act ....
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023 |
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Hawaii receives ‘F’ in Shared Hope International’s Report Cards on Child and Youth Sex Trafficking
By News Release @ 7:06 PM :: 2165 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement
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... Hawaii is one of 21 states that fail to prohibit the criminalization of minors for prostitution offenses, thus allowing commercially sexually exploited minors to be held criminally accountable for their own victimization ....
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023 |
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Monday, November 13, 2023 |
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Gun Violence: Westside Legislators Push Back Against Grace, Fevella
By News Release @ 5:39 PM :: 4199 Views :: Honolulu County, Gambling, Law Enforcement, Second Amendment
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"We are disappointed that one of our colleagues has chosen to align themselves with a group of people promoting hate and bullying."
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023 |
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Lahaina: AG Looking for Illegal Evictions and Rent Hikes
By News Release @ 4:14 PM :: 2097 Views :: Maui County, Law Enforcement
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... inform the Department of the Attorney General if their landlords are illegally raising rent or threatening them with eviction ....
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023 |
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Sheriff's Top Training Officer Pleads Guilty
By News Release @ 10:38 PM :: 2595 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement
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... her fake qualifications will protect every officer she trained ....
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023 |
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023 |
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DLNR Implementing 'Civil Resource Violation System'
By News Release @ 4:38 PM :: 2799 Views :: Environment, Homelessness, Law Enforcement
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... Hawai‘i is the third state to implement a CRVS, after Vermont and Oregon ....
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Friday, September 29, 2023 |
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023 |
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FBI Forensics Lending a Hand in Lahaina
By News Release @ 5:35 PM :: 2288 Views :: Maui County, Law Enforcement
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... Within days of the fire, FBI resources such as the Evidence Response Team (ERT), forensic identification, and victim services deployed to Lahaina. ...
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