2025

Hawaiʻi Island police are searching for 43-year-old Shanera Echols of Ocean View who was reported missing on March 27, 2025. Echols is considered endangered because she needs medication due to a medical condition. She was last seen leaving her residence...

Twenty Hawai‘i Island residents are alive today due to Hawai‘i Police Department (HPD) deploying tourniquets donated by the Spirit of Blue Foundation. Ryan Smith, executive director of the Spirit of Blue Foundation, visited Hawai‘i Police Department headquarters in Hilo on...

Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 18-year-old Lipomala’e Kahai-Burgess of Pāhoa, who was reported missing on Thursday, March 27, 2025. Kahai-Burgess was last seen in the area of Hibiscus Drive in Pāhoa on Wednesday, March...

Hawai‘i Island police are seeking witnesses to a road rage incident involving a White Toyota 4Runner and a Silver Ford SUV that took place on Sunday, March 23, 2025, in the area of 78-mile-marker of Highway 11 in Ocean View....

The Hawai‘i Police Department (HPD) is pleased to announce that Captain Aaron Carvalho graduated as a member of the 293rd session of the prestigious FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, on March 13, 2025. Captain Carvalho was one of 244...

Detectives with Hawai‘i Police Department’s Area II Criminal Investigation Section located and arrested 40-year-old Robert “Tamatoa” Teinauri-Carman in the vicinity of Highway 11 in Pāhala around 7 a.m. on Thursday, March 20, 2025. The Ocean View resident was arrested in...

Hawai‘i Island police are requesting the public’s assistance in locating 40-year-old Robert “Tamatoa” Teinauri-Carman of Ocean View, who is wanted for two outstanding warrants, one regarding an indictment and one regarding revocation of release of bail, as well as for...

During the week of March 10, through March 16, 2025, Hawai‘i Island police arrested 15 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant.  Two of the drivers were involved in a traffic crash. None of the drivers were under...

Hawaiʻi Island police are seeking the public’s help in locating 51-year-old Vesna Young, who was reported missing from the Miloli‘i area in South Kona. She was last seen in Milolii near the 88-100 block of Umi Avenue on Sunday, March...