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Thursday, February 13, 2025
“You cannot run from the facts” Miske half-brother gets 20 years
By News Release @ 12:27 AM :: 230 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement, Drugs

... Judge Watson found Stancil to be  “among the most culpable” of those in the Miske Enterprise ....

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Sunday, February 9, 2025
Feds Collect $1.7M in Hawaii Forfeitures
By News Release @ 2:03 PM :: 326 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement

... U.S. Attorney’s Office Collects $1,742,014.13 in Civil and Criminal Actions in Fiscal Year 2024 ....

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Saturday, February 8, 2025
SB1150 Would Legalize Child Kidnapping for Sex Change
By Selected News Articles @ 2:11 PM :: 3066 Views :: Family, Health Care, Law Enforcement

... Set for a February 11, 2025, hearing before Senate HHS/CPN committees, SB1150 grants a de-facto immunity and asylum in Hawaii for any kidnapper who claims to be helping a child receive so-called ‘gender-affirming’ treatments ....

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Thursday, February 6, 2025
Proof of Concept Study Completed for New Oahu Jail
By News Release @ 11:00 AM :: 376 Views :: Honolulu County, Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

... Built in 1916, the OCCC is a tad outdated ....

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Thursday, January 30, 2025
Puna Man Arrested in Alleged Neo-Nazi Child Molestation Ring
By News Release @ 10:36 PM :: 777 Views :: Hawaii County , Law Enforcement

... Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge, 41, of Pahoa, Hawaii, was arrested this morning pursuant to a grand jury indictment ....

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Thursday, January 30, 2025
Jail Guard Pleads Guilty to Importing Illegal Fireworks--via jail mailroom
By News Release @ 2:21 AM :: 668 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement

“While working as an adult corrections officer, Mr. Fernandez had almost 95 pounds of aerial fireworks mailed to OCCC, the very correctional facility that he had a duty to secure....”

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Friday, January 24, 2025
Hawaii AG: Local Law Enforcement Cannot be Commandeered by Trump
By News Release @ 3:41 AM :: 403 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement

... addressing state and local involvement in federal immigration enforcement ....

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Thursday, January 23, 2025
Report: Hawaii Jail Guards Under Extreme Stress Due to Mandatory OT, Understaffing
By News Release @ 3:25 PM :: 447 Views :: Labor, Law Enforcement

... Many staff cited unsustainable work conditions marked by mandatory overtime, insufficient staff, and inadequate wellness resources ....

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Trump Directs Coast Guard 'Surge'
By News Release @ 1:05 AM :: 793 Views :: Law Enforcement, Military

... Alaska, Hawai’i, the U.S. territories of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands ....

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
David K. Porter Named Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Honolulu Field Office
By News Release @ 1:23 PM :: 552 Views :: Law Enforcement

... Mr. Porter most recently served as the chief of staff for the Deputy Director at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. ....

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
DLE Director Quits
By News Release @ 3:03 PM :: 642 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement, Police

... Green announces nomination of HPD Major Mike Lambert as the next Director of the State Department of Law Enforcement ....

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Deport Illegal Thieves? Hawaii Congressional Delegation Votes 'Nay'
By Selected News Articles @ 5:37 PM :: 713 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Law Enforcement

... The U.S. Senate has voted 84-9 to begin debate on the Laken Riley Act.  Schatz and Hirono are among the nine .... 

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Hawaii attorney general questions Walmart's retreat from DEI
By Selected News Articles @ 2:10 PM :: 662 Views :: Labor, Law Enforcement

... Walmart reportedly is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies to focus on being more "belonging." ....

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Friday, January 10, 2025
Not Everybody is Leaving: COVID fraud helps one family move to Kapolei
By News Release @ 10:32 PM :: 724 Views :: Law Enforcement, COVID-19

... as a result of the false and fraudulent applications, they received $1,365,000 in PPP loan funds ....

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Hawaii doctor under investigation for murder in woman’s euthanasia death
By Selected News Articles @ 11:31 PM :: 1383 Views :: Law Enforcement, Life

... the woman was starting to choke and motioned for the doctor to stop — but he continued ....

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Fireworks: Culture and Traditions?
By Joni Kamiya @ 2:30 AM :: 890 Views :: Hawaii History, Law Enforcement

... people trying to culturally appropriate customs to justify their inconsiderate and dangerous behaviors with leaders having to be “sensitive” when discussing it ....

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Monday, January 6, 2025
US Atty Connors Resigns After Successfully Stopping Hawaii Corruption Prosecutions
By News Release @ 11:15 PM :: 1098 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement

...  Miske, Dawson and Choy are dead and all the investigations are squelched .... 

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Saturday, January 4, 2025
Report: CWS Hurts Rather than Helps
By News Release @ 1:08 PM :: 946 Views :: Ethics, Family, Law Enforcement

... People inside and outside of CWS describe an uncoordinated system that works in silos and lacks proper resources and accountability. ...

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Saturday, December 21, 2024
After KPT Shootout, Meth-Head Finally Catches a Federal Case
By News Release @ 3:45 PM :: 888 Views :: Judiciary, Law Enforcement

... Feds, once again, doing the job the State Judiciary can/will not ....

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Thursday, December 19, 2024
Hawaii Preferred Port of Entry for 'Birth Tourism' Scheme
By News Release @ 2:54 PM :: 995 Views :: World News, Law Enforcement

... “birth tourism” scheme that charged Chinese clients tens of thousands of dollars to help them give birth in the United States to obtain birthright U.S. citizenship for their children ....

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024
FBI Honolulu Publishes 2024 Fiscal Year in Review Document
By News Release @ 10:04 PM :: 647 Views :: Law Enforcement

... highlights FBI Honolulu’s casework in counterintelligence, counterterrorism, cyberstalking, drug and gun crimes, organized crime, violent crimes against children, white-collar crimes, and more ....

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Monday, December 16, 2024
Reply to ACLU: Fixing Hawaii Bail Problem Requires Return to Core Constitutional Principles
By Selected News Articles @ 12:42 PM :: 6385 Views :: Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

... reforms implemented in 2019 have not reduced pretrial incarceration ....

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Mariana Islands a Center for Chinese Birth Tourism
By Selected News Articles @ 11:00 AM :: 1163 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement

“...Since 2009, Communist Chinese passport holders have been permitted to sidestep the U.S.. visa requirements to enter the northern Mariana islands through categorical parole....”

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Monday, December 9, 2024
ANOTHER ONE: Alleged CEO Assassin is Honolulu Resident
By Court House News @ 3:36 PM :: 1708 Views :: National News, Law Enforcement

... 2nd alleged assassin this year with Hawaii connections ....

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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Miske’s death may terminate some criminal proceedings
By News Release @ 1:23 AM :: 1533 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement, Police

"Presently, there is no finding of foul play or suicide."

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Monday, December 2, 2024
How Family Got Justice Decades After Outgoing 19-Year-Old Was Killed in Her Hawaii Apartment
By Video @ 4:38 PM :: 1111 Views :: Hawaii History, Law Enforcement, Police

... Nancy Anderson's murder — which was Hawaii's oldest cold case — is the focus of the Dec. 2 episode of 'People Magazine Investigates' on ID ....

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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
ACLU Challenges HPD Drugged-Driving Arrests
By News Release @ 12:42 PM :: 1513 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement, Police, Drugs

... Fepuleai—who does not drink or do drugs—blew a 0.000. But officers said they now suspected he was on drugs. Officers then arrested Mr. Fepuleai for DUI ....

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Monday, October 14, 2024
UN report exposes escalating threat of organized crime in the Pacific
By News Release @ 3:46 PM :: 911 Views :: Law Enforcement, Drugs

... The Pacific is increasingly becoming an important transshipment hub and an operational and destination point for organized crime syndicates ....

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Saturday, October 12, 2024
Socialists Team up with Hawaii Judiciary to Expunge Dozens of Criminal Records
By News Release @ 1:21 AM :: 1095 Views :: Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment, Law Enforcement

... Criminals were lined up when the doors opened, eager for a chance to do it all over again ....

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Saturday, September 21, 2024
Another Alleged Maui Bomber Arrested--also a repeat offender
By News Release @ 4:01 PM :: 3555 Views :: Maui County, Law Enforcement

... Finally this 30-time loser will go before a real—ie Federal--court ....

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Thursday, September 12, 2024
Honolulu CIA man will serve 10 years for espionage involving China
By News Release @ 5:27 PM :: 1043 Views :: Law Enforcement

"facilitated the provision of classified information to intelligence officers employed by the PRC’s Shanghai State Security Bureau"

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Saturday, August 31, 2024
Foster Care Rape Room: Police Report Blows Away CWS Coverup
By Andrew Walden @ 8:42 PM :: 6297 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Family, Law Enforcement

... drug addicts watching porn with 5-year olds ....

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Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Neighborhood Board members, Honolulu Councilmember visit OCCC and new jail site
By News Release @ 5:09 AM :: 1681 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement

... The new O‘ahu jail is projected to incorporate a modern jail design ....

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Friday, August 2, 2024
Green appoints new board chair, member to Hawaiʻi Paroling Authority
By News Release @ 10:34 PM :: 992 Views :: Law Enforcement

... Gene DeMello Jr. as the new chairperson of the Hawaiʻi Paroling Authority (HPA), following the retirement of HPA chair Edmund “Fred” Hyun ....

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Police Name Suspect in Dana Ireland Murder
By News Release @ 1:21 AM :: 1781 Views :: Hawaii County , Hawaii History, Law Enforcement, Police

... 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
Miske Convicted
By Court House News @ 11:50 PM :: 1593 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement, Police

... 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
After Veto Threat, Green Signs Sara Yara Bill into law
By News Release @ 2:47 PM :: 1311 Views :: Education K-12, Law Enforcement

... 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
Operation 'Shine the Light' Rescues 11 Missing Children on Oahu
By News Release @ 4:33 PM :: 2464 Views :: Honolulu County, Family, Law Enforcement

“...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
Supreme Court overrules landmark 'Chevron' precedent on government authority
By Court House News @ 3:39 AM :: 1528 Views :: Environment, Health Care, Labor, Land Use, Law Enforcement, Small Business

... 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
How Mexican cartels target Hawaii with meth, fentanyl
By Selected News Articles @ 7:04 PM :: 1775 Views :: Law Enforcement, Drugs

... 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
Judge pares down charges against accused Hawaii crime boss
By Court House News @ 4:48 AM :: 1346 Views :: Law Enforcement, Drugs

... 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
Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Espionage
By News Release @ 2:16 AM :: 881 Views :: World News, Law Enforcement

... 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
Latest Cockfighting Arrests ‘No Surprise’ after Hawaii Senate Fails on HB 1980
By News Release @ 6:33 PM :: 1595 Views :: Hawaii County , Law Enforcement, Drugs

... 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
Defend Hawaii: Miske Lawyer Celebrates Kaneshiro Corruption Victory, Tells Feds to Pack Up and Leave
By Court House News @ 2:06 AM :: 5723 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Judiciary, Law Enforcement

... 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
Oahu Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Fraudulent Check Scheme
By News Release @ 6:00 PM :: 1199 Views :: Law Enforcement

... 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
Closing arguments begin in high-profile Hawaii bribery trial
By Court House News @ 2:40 PM :: 1741 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement

... 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
Final witness testifies as former prosecutor’s corruption trial draws to a close in Hawaii
By Court House News @ 2:22 PM :: 1715 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement

... 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
Feds Sentence Another Hawaii Fraudster
By News Release @ 9:21 PM :: 1609 Views :: Law Enforcement

... 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
40,457 Unregistered Cars on Oahu Streets
By News Release @ 3:08 AM :: 1994 Views :: Honolulu County, Law Enforcement

... 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
Hawaii Least Drug Problem in USA
By Wallet Hub @ 5:24 AM :: 2012 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Law Enforcement, Drugs

... but Hawaii has the 5th-highest proportion of teenagers offered drugs on school grounds ....

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