Wednesday’s state court proceeding in the murder trial of a man accused of killing Jack in the Box restaurant manager Helen Prestosa ended early because the state’s key witness apparently became ill. Read more
Benjamin Awong was bound with zip ties and tape, then beaten in the face with a handgun on a report that he had harassed someone, Deputy Prosecutor Chelsea Okamoto told a state judge Tuesday. Read more
The lawyer for a man on trial for causing the death of a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant manager told a state jury Monday that the man’s father, who told police his son confessed to the killing, is the more likely killer. Read more
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Cayetano testified Wednesday in the federal conspiracy trial of former Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha. Read more
Homeless man, sick of living on street, attacks police officer to go to prison. Read more
Retired Honolulu Police Department Lt. Eric Yiu is not going to jail or prison for tax evasion and is even getting the opportunity to keep his criminal record clean. Read more
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A former Honolulu police officer will not face any jail or prison term when he is sentenced in August for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl. Read more
The Hawaii Supreme Court says a baggie with suspected drugs and glass pipe found during a pat-down of a homeless man who was stopped for riding an unregistered bicycle cannot be used to prosecute the man because police did not have the right to search him. Read more
Prosecutors in the federal conspiracy trial of Louis and Katherine Kealoha showed the jury Thursday an actual mailbox and more surveillance video of a person taking the Kealohas’ mailbox. Read more
Prosecutors say the Kealohas and a co-defendant falsely identified Puana as the mailbox thief to frame and discredit him. Read more
The first Hawaii trial in decades involving accusations of corruption by high-ranking public officials began Wednesday with retired Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his former deputy prosecutor wife Katherine Kealoha hoping to convince the jury they did not fake the theft of their mailbox as part of a family fight over money. Read more
Opening statements followed the final selection of the 12-member jury — five women and seven men — plus five alternates. Read more
It’s put-up-or-shut-up time for federal prosecutors in the conspiracy trial of retired Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, former Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha. Read more
A state appeals court says a lower court judge should have found in favor of the Hawaii Attorney General in its effort to collect nearly $1 million in unpaid fines, costs and interest from convicted Ewa Villages thief Michael Kahapea. Read more
A South Korea-bound Hawaiian Airlines passenger told a federal judge that he was intoxicated and doesn’t remember being put into flex cuffs after lunging at a flight attendant. Read more
One way or another, the jury in the federal conspiracy trial of retired Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, former deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha, will hear from the latter’s 99-year-old grandmother. Read more
Professional mixed martial arts fighter Arnold Douglas Berdon will not go to jail or prison for assaulting his then-wife, fellow professional MMA fighter Rachael Ostovich. Read more
The former bookkeeper for a plant nursery on Maui pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court to wire fraud for stealing more than $1.3 million from the business to pay off her credit cards and mortgage. Read more
The pool of prospective jurors for the federal conspiracy trial of retired Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha; his wife Katherine, a former deputy prosecutor; and three former members of the Honolulu Police Department’s Criminal Intelligence Unit is down to 249. Read more
A 30-year-old man whose legal name is Elvis Pres Lee was in U.S. District Court Tuesday, accused of passing counterfeit $100 bills. Read more
A federal judge sentenced a homeless man Tuesday to 21 months in prison for breaking into and stealing mail from post office boxes at the downtown post office on Merchant Street. Read more
