No criminal charges will result from the state investigation into the wildfires that leveled Lahaina, killed 102 people and destroyed Maui’s visitor industry, according to state Attorney General Anne E. Lopez. Read more
Detractors show up every day at Honolulu Hale and Kapolei Hale to vote in person and to loudly complain about Hawaii’s mail-in ballot process, which voters overwhelmingly prefer. Read more
A 52-year-old caterer from New York City pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexually assaulting a man sitting next to him on a Hawaiian Airlines Flight to Honolulu in August 2023. Read more
HPD is looking for whoever fired at least three shots at the car as it drove near Mayor Wright Homes. Read more
The leader of a heavily armed Honolulu drug trafficking organization that marketed deadly fentanyl-laced mixes of opioids, heroin and methamphetamine will serve 30 years in federal prison. Read more
A 44-year-old homeless man was indicted on a charge of murder by an Oahu grand jury Tuesday after his 50-year-old girlfriend’s bullet-riddled body was found Sept. 13 in a Manoa storm drain. Read more
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He is being held without bail at the Oahu Community Correctional Center. Read more
A Japanese national convicted in the 1994 shooting deaths of a psychic and her son was allegedly stabbed to death in the Halawa Correctional Facility early Monday morning by his 38-year-old cellmate. Read more
A cause and origin report from Maui County and the federal government concluded the Lahaina fire started when downed power lines were reenergized in overgrown vegetation that violated the county fire code. Read more
Raita Fukusaku, 59, was convicted in 1995 of shooting and killing well-known Japanese fortuneteller Toako “Kototome” Fujita and her son Goro. Read more
State law enforcement officials entered into a $3.14 million contract with Microsoft to use artificial intelligence to “accelerate the digital transformation” of the department and use new technologies to improve operations and public safety. Read more
Honolulu police arrested a 44-year-old homeless man on murder charges Friday after the decomposing body of his girlfriend was found in a storm drain in Manoa on Sept. 13. Read more
“The Gun Tip Line offers another way the public can assist law enforcement in protecting our neighborhoods,” said DLE Director Jordan Lowe, in a statement. Read more
The City Council deferred making a decision on the proposed $1.5 million settlement of a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widow of an unarmed 29-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by police following a fight with officers responding to a 911 call at a Nuuanu home in April 2021. Read more
City attorneys are proposing to pay $1.5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widow of a 29-year-old citizen of South Africa who was shot and killed by Honolulu police officers after a bloody fight at a Nuuanu home on April 14, 2021. Read more
The Honolulu Police Department is looking for a 2021 black Jeep with license plate WDU838 because it may be involved in a kidnapping, according to police. Read more
Cheney’s bail is set at $1 million. Read more
The three men — ages 21, 19 and 18 — were arrested by HPD officers at 2929 Round Top Drive, a scenic spot overlooking Honolulu and Diamond Head, at 10:40 p.m. Read more
A Waipahu man was ordered held without bail Monday after he allegedly admitted to taking and keeping sexually explicit pictures of two girls under the age of 13. Read more
A 60-year-old homeless man remained in police custody Monday after he allegedly stabbed a 22-year-old Wendy’s worker to death and wounded his 44-year-old colleague Sunday morning in Nanakuli. Read more
In 2023, HPD officers made 200 gambling arrests, 108 for operating, promoting or assisting gambling and 92 for gambling equipment violations. Read more
