Law Enforcement

Prescription drug related deaths now outnumber those from heroin and cocaine combined, and drug overdose deaths exceed motor vehicle-related deaths....

The authors attribute the reduction in crime to two factors. The first is a lack of "concentration" allowing for less opportunity to engage in criminal activity, and the second is possibly increased monitoring by parents....

The indictment alleges that the USO Family is the dominant prison gang in Hawaii and operates both inside and outside the State of Hawaii prison system....

Sherbow claimed he initially approached Gabbard because he was born into the same obscure Western-Hindu tradition as Tulsi....

A federal arrest warrant was issued after Sherbow sent an extensive email to FBI agents and the media....

Sherbow was arrested on Wednesday, August 28, 2013, in Tijuana, Mexico....

He said it would not have necessarily been easier to convict Deedy of the lesser manslaughter charge....

Honolulu ranks as one of the least safe driving cities, landing at number 128 on the list. According to the report, the average driver in Honolulu will experience an auto collision every 8.7 years, which is about 15 percent more likely than the national average....

results of the Hawaiʻi Police Department’s 2013 Community Satisfaction Survey and the police chief’s responses....

DCCA issued a Preliminary Order to Cease and Desist and Notice of Right to Hearing against a Hawaii businessman, David T. Low, and his company, Hawaii Capital Management, LLC...

In 1979, around the time that imprisonment rates began their sharp uptick, 314,000 people sat behind bars in the United States. As of mid-2013, that number stood at about 2 million....

Dr. Christopher B. Happy has been selected as Honolulu’s Chief Medical Examiner....

The Governor also signed bills that extend the voluntary foster care age to 21 as well as keep keiki safe from a parent who has been convicted of a sexual assault....

Lawsuit Seeks Transparency Before Implementation of a 'Bigger, Faster and Better' Biometrics System....

Bargaining Unit 14, to represent state law enforcement officers, and state and county ocean safety and water safety officers....

Nishimura was the highest-ranking Honolulu police officer charged with a federal felony offense....

There are currently nine youths between the ages of 13-17 in the Wrap Hawai‘i pilot program....

Despite this assurance, the record also reveals that the parties also made jokes about being “locked up” because of these games....

They soon settled into a formerly government-owned hotel where other foreign missions and international journalists were lodged, but had to move when a car bomb exploded in the hotel parking lot....

...a mandate to cut the legal blood alcohol limit from 0.08% to 0.05%.....

Will Hawaii’s soft-on-crime Judiciary allow an insanity plea to a Muslim claiming a religious justification for acts of violence or terrorism?

...average medical charges were nearly tripled among those who did not use seat belts ($11,043), compared to restrained passengers ($3,817)....

Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on May 6, 2013, against the U.S. Secret Service....

...Hawaii flags be flown at half-staff alongside the flags of the United States at state offices and agencies as well as the Hawaii National Guard from sunrise to sunset on Wednesday, May 15....

Attorney General Eric Holder presented the award to Ferguson-Brey during the National Crime Victims’ Rights Week awards ceremony....

...a former U.S. Army officer who works as a civilian employee of a defense contractor at U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) in Hawaii, has been arrested....

...it was noted that no one in that van had leg shackles on....

They enter the store with reusable bags and can more easily conceal items they steal.  It's tough to tell what a customer has paid for and what they may already have brought with them....

Gov. Neil Abercrombie today announced the appointment of Max Otani as deputy director of corrections with the state Department of Public Safety, effective immediately....

A number of tax department employees who were investigated in connection with the security breaches have been “arrested and relieved of their duties,” said state Rep. John Mizuno....

Agents recovered computer storage media, including a disk that contained images of a minor boy engaged in sexually explicit conduct....

...see the list of 1,000 well-known prison reform activists, elected Democrats, Hawaii County Prosecutor, sovereignty activists, religious leftists, green mailers, and current inmates who have signed on to this effort....

"This guy's been operating (as a commercial enterprise) for two or three decades." .... In other words, he's a drug dealer.

"VSE was unaware that despite DEI’s military ordnance background, the company had no experience with fireworks disposal.”