2025

Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 17-year-old Brook-Taylor Sato-Lasky, who was reported as a runaway. Sato-Lasky was last seen in the Pāhoa area on Saturday, February 15, 2025, at 2:00 a.m. wearing a gray jacket,...

Hawai‘i Island police are investigating a two-vehicle traffic collision that killed a husband and wife from Waimea early Tuesday morning, February 18, 2025, on Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway, in North Kona.   Upon responding to a reported collision at 5:41 a.m....

Hawaiʻi Police Department’s Puna Community Policing Officers invite east Hawai‘i residents to attend Coffee with a Cop in Kea‘au on Saturday, March 1, 2025, from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., at the Hawaiian Paradise Park Community Center, 15-1570 Maku‘u Drive....

Hawaiʻi Island police are searching for 37-year-old Rick Andrade of Kurtistown who was reported missing. Andrade was last seen in the area of Volcano Road and Enos Road in Kurtistown on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, and has not been seen...

Hawai’i Island police detectives have arrested and charged 44-year-old Dante F. Modaffari, of Mountain View, following a violent assault on his brother that occurred on Wednesday morning, February 12, 2025, on Lehuanani Street, in Volcano. The charges against Modaffari stem...

Hawai‘i Police Department continues to encourage Hawai‘i Island residents to take the department’s Community Satisfaction Survey, which is open the month of February until 4:00 p.m., Friday, February 28, 2025. The department conducts the survey every two years as part...

During the week of February 3, through February 9, 2025, Hawai‘i Island police arrested 24 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Seven of the drivers were involved in a traffic crash. Four of the drivers were under...

Hawai‘i Island police are investigating a traffic collision in Hilo involving a motor vehicle and a pedestrian on Monday, February 10, 2025, that left an elderly male visitor from Minnesota in critical condition. Responding to the intersection of Ponahawai and...

Hawai‘i Island police have arrested and charged two men, 43-year-old Kalani Rocky Nobriga of Pahoa and 40-year-old Anthony Romero Gonsalves of Mountain View, in connection with a violent robbery that occurred early Saturday morning, February 8, 2025, in downtown Hilo....