Media Releases

Hawai‘i Police DepartmentTraffic Enforcement UnitSergeant Jeremy RiddlePhone: (808) 961-2339Report No.: 24-079863 Media Release **Correction: Initial posting listed the day of occurrence as Friday. The accident occurred on Saturday, August 31, 2024.** Hawai‘i Island police are investigating a two vehicle traffic...

Hawai‘i Police DepartmentJuvenile Aid Section – Area ILieutenant Robert P. PauolePhone: (808) 961-2254Report No.: 24-077457 Media Release Hawai’i Island police are requesting the public’s assistance in locating 41-year-old Naomi Ranae Fenenbock, of Hilo.  Fenenbock is wanted for three outstanding bench...

Hawaiʻi Police DepartmentArea II Criminal Investigation SectionLieutenant Michael HardiePhone: (808) 326-4646, Ext. 266Report No.: 24-079296 Media Release Hawaiʻi Island police have charged 44-year-old Brandan Patrick Nicholson of Kailua-Kona with robbery and theft as a result of their investigation into a...

Hawai‘i Police DepartmentArea I Traffic Enforcement UnitSergeant Jeremy RiddlePhone: (808) 961-2339Report No.: 24-079285 Media Release Hawai‘i Island police are investigating a traffic collision involving a motor vehicle and motorcycle in Pāhoa on Thursday afternoon, August 29, 2024, which sent one...

Hawaiʻi Police DepartmentCriminal Investigations Section, Area IIDetective Len HamakadoPhone: (808) 326-4646, ext. 224Report No. 24-079296 Media Release Hawaiʻi Island police are investigating a reported robbery at a financial institution in Kailua-Kona. On Thursday, August 29, 2024 at approximately 3:24 p.m.,...

Leilani Kim (Castro) was a recently divorced mother of three who had just started a new job at the Kona Hilton Hotel, now Royal Kona Resort, when she was found murdered in Kailua-Kona on Aug. 1, 1978. She was last...

On April 6, 1973, some high school kids checking out the area near Kahikolu Trinity Church in the Nāpoʻopoʻo area (Kealakekua) discovered the partially decomposed body of a woman. Later identified as 21-year-old Gayle Hook, the pathologist said Gayle died of...

On January 31, 2001, at 5:17 p.m., a passerby discovered the body of Kallen Agliam, age 19, on the side of the roadway off of the old Hilo Coast Processing Plant Road in Pepe’ekeo. An autopsy determined that Agliam died...

When Sean Burgado, age 27, did not show up for work for a few days in May 1997, his employer asked a neighbor to check Burgado’s home in the upper Waiakea Uka area of Hilo. The neighbor discovered Burgado’s body...