Media Releases

The Hawai‘i Police Department (HPD) is warning the public of a phone scam after receiving reports of unknown individuals calling Big Island residents posing as Hawai‘i Police Department officers. The scammers are posing as police officers. In one instance, a...

Hawaiʻi Island police are requesting for the public’s assistance in locating 31-year-old Jannefer Kaspar of Kurtistown, who was reported missing. She is considered an endangered missing person and may be in need of medical attention. Kaspar is described as having...

The Hawai‘i Police Department is investigating a possible drowning that occurred at O-Tech Beach in Kailua-Kona late Sunday afternoon, January 5, 2025. The victim, an unidentified Caucasian man, appeared to be in his early to late 30s. Kona patrol officers...

West Hawai‘i residents are invited to attend four Coffee With a Cop events this month in Kona for an opportunity to get to know their district police officers. These popular events are intentionally informal with no agenda. Topics of conversation...

Hawai‘i Island police have charged the driver of a vehicle involved in a fatal traffic collision that killed a 52-year-old Captain Cook man with operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant (OVUII) and negligent homicide. The crash occurred...

A 74-year-old Waikoloa man sustained life-threatening injuries in a single-vehicle collision in Waikoloa Village on Wednesday afternoon, January 1, 2025. At approximately 5:11 p.m., Hawai‘i Police Department officers responded to scene of the crash at the intersection of Eleele Street...

Police have identified the bicyclist who passed away from a fatal traffic collision Monday evening, December 30, 2024, in Pāhoa as 58-year-old James M. Cordova of Pāhoa. Responding to the collision at 7:57 p.m., police investigators determined that a 2018...

Two minutes into the new year, Hawai‘i Island police responded to a South Kona traffic collision involving a vehicle and a pedestrian that left the male pedestrian dead. The driver of the vehicle, 23-year-old Kelly Kaikili Losalio, of Captain Cook,...

Hawai‘i Island police report that 25-year-old Tre’lo Bailey, who was previously reported as missing, was located in Puna on Monday, December 30, 2024, in good health.