Media Releases

Hawai‘i Police DepartmentArea II Traffic Enforcement UnitSergeant Thomas KoyanagiPhone: (808) 326-4646, Ext. 229Report No.: 23-012313 Media Release After extensive research and validation using DNA and dental records, two men who died in a February 2023 South Kohala traffic collision have...

Hawai‘i Police DepartmentPuna Patrol Officer Johnathan RapozaPhone: (808) 965-2716Report No.: 24-001591 Media Release Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 17-year-old Saysha Kaholo-Hiapo who was reported as a runaway on Friday, January 5, 2024.   She was...

Hawai‘i Police DepartmentArea I Criminal Investigation DivisionCaptain Rio Amon-WilkinsPhone: (808) 961-2251Report No.: 23-113936 Media Release Detectives with Hawai‘i Police Department’s Area I Criminal Investigation Division launched a homicide investigation following the discovery of a body last month in Hilo. On...

Hawai‘i Police DepartmentArea II Traffic Enforcement UnitSergeant Thomas KoyanagiPhone: (808) 326-4646, Ext. 229Report No. 24-002073 Media Release A 31-year-old Maui man who died in a single-vehicle collision on Sunday, January 7, 2024, in Kailua-Kona, has been positively identified as Christopher...

Hawai‘i Police DepartmentHilo PatrolOfficer Shane HanleyPhone: (808) 935-3311Report No.: 24-002233 Media Release Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 15-year-old Kainalu Castro-Santos who was reported as a runaway. Castro-Santos was last seen in Volcano, on Sunday,...

Hawai‘i Police DepartmentArea I Criminal Investigation DivisionCaptain Rio Amon-WilkinsPhone: (808) 961-2251Report No.: 24-001196 Media Release (Update#1) Hawai‘i Island police have arrested and charged two Kailua-Kona residents with multiple offenses following two suspected fentanyl overdoses at the Hawai‘i Community Correctional Center...

Hawaiʻi Police DepartmentPuna PatrolOfficer Trenton AurelloPhone: (808) 965-2716Report No.: 24-002431 Media Release          Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 30-year-old Zackery Caruthers-Styhl of Pāhoa who was reported missing. He was last seen in the beginning of...

Hawai‘i Police DepartmentArea I Traffic Enforcement UnitSergeant Jeremy RiddlePhone: (808) 961-2339Report No.: 24-001721 Media Release (Update #1) The Hawai‘i  Police Department is saddened to report that the 16-year-old male pedestrian in the officer-involved motor vehicle/pedestrian collision on Friday evening, January...

Hawai‘i Police DepartmentKona Community Policing SectionSergeant Brandon MansurPhone: (808) 326-4646, Ext. 259 Media Release 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...