The latest news coverage about disgraced Honolulu police chief Louis Kealoha and former Honolulu deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha.
The public defender whose suspicions over a mailbox theft investigation led to one of the biggest public corruption cases in Hawaii detailed Friday a litany of red flags his team came across as they defended the man accused of the crime. Read more
The Kealohas and three former and current police officer are accused of trying to frame Katherine Kealoha’s uncle for the 2013 theft of the mailbox and lying about their actions to federal investigators. Read more
In September 2013 Deputy Prosecutor William Kaina Awong, whose supervisor was Katherine Kealoha, filed a motion in state court seeking to correct an illegal sentence against Kealoha’s uncle. Read more
An ex-Honolulu prosecutor testified today that his former supervisor assigned him her uncle’s criminal case without telling them they were related and at odds over money. Read more
Former Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha’s actions in a 2011 criminal case involving her uncle Gerard Puana took center stage on the fifth day of the federal conspiracy trial against her; her husband, retired Police Chief Louis Kealoha; and three current and former police officers. Read more
Retired police officer Niall Silva admitted repeatedly lying to the FBI, federal prosecutors, grand jurors and in court testimony in connection with the alleged theft of the mailbox of retired Honolulu Police Chief Louise Kealoha and his wife, former Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha. Read more
“My heart sank,” retired police officer Niall Silva testified today. “I perpetuated a lie, and it was against someone who wasn’t guilty.” Read more
The Honolulu Police Department marshaled some of its top talent to conduct a six-day investigation into the theft of the Kahala mailbox belonging to then-Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, Katherine Kealoha, according to testimony Friday at the federal conspiracy trial against the couple. Read more
The trial is the culmination of a nearly two-year-long FBI and federal grand jury investigation. Read more
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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
There’s much that will become clearer as the case that has roiled Honolulu’s law-and-order scene for several years finally comes to trial. 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
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
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
Some 413 potential jurors filled the Neal S. Blaisdell Center’s Pikake Room Monday in an extraordinary federal court proceeding to select jurors in the Kealoha trial. Read more
Some 413 potential jurors filled the Neal S. Blaisdell Center’s Pikake Room today in an extraordinary federal court proceeding. Read more
Kealohas were spending more than they earned according to court documents filed by federal prosecutors ahead of the Kealohas’ trial. Read more
Jury selection is scheduled to start May 13 with potential jurors expected to show up at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center for screening. Read more
