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Hawaiʻi Island police have arrested a 37-year-old Hilo woman in connection with a stabbing Monday morning (January 7) in Hilo. At 7:17 p.m. Monday, detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigations Section arrested Cherie Sueko Moskwa on suspicion of second-degree murder.

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Big Island police have identified a body found November 3 at Waikini Beach in Kaʻū as 48-year-old Terry Lee Day, who lived in the Ocean View area but had no permanent address. Day was identified Tuesday afternoon (November 13) through dental records.

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Police investigation has turned up evidence that the decedent may have been a middle-aged homeless Caucasian man between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-11 who frequented the Kainaliu, Kealakekua and Honalo areas. When found at Higashihara Park in Keauhou Mauka, he was wearing blue jeans, no shoes and a blue T-shirt depicting a SpongeBob character and the words […]

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An autopsy has determined that 49-year-old Barry Bokmej of Kawaihae died from cardiac arrest. On June 4, Bokmej was found unresponsive on a roof he had been pressure-washing. He was taken to Kona Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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Big Island police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a person whose partially decomposed body was found in a West Hawaiʻi public park on Thursday (July 19). Police investigation has turned up evidence that […]

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Fire/rescue crews answered a 2:34 p.m. alarm to a two-story house on Mamalahoa Highway between Mokuloa Drive and Iokua Place for an unresponsive man on the roof Monday (June 4).

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Big Island police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a female caller who made a 9-1-1 call on May 3 to report a deceased person at a home in Volcano. The caller made the report but her identification was not obtained. Responding officers discovered the body of 52-year-old Patrick Barrionuebo at his home […]

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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 1:39 p.m. alarm Saturday (May 5) when a passerby spotted the body of a man floating in Onomea Bay North of Hilo. The fire department’s helicopter airlifted the body, which was about 200 yards off shore, to the Onomea Bay lookout. Police said it was a 43 year-old Papaikou man […]

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Big Island police are renewing their request for information about the location of a car belonging to a man found dead in lower Puna on January 17. The body of 62-year-old Dennis Eugene White of Kapoho was found partially submerged near the shoreline in the vicinity of Isaac Hale Beach Park in Pohoiki. An autopsy […]

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Big Island police have initiated a coroner’s inquest case in connection with the death of a canoe paddler. Kona Patrol officers responded to the Keauhou Pier at approximately 7 a.m. Wednesday (February 1) after receiving a report of an overturned double hull canoe. When officers arrived, Coast Guard personnel were already on scene. All 10 […]

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Preliminary results from an autopsy performed on Friday (November 11) gave no indication that foul play was involved in the death of a man whose body was found on Banyan Drive in Hilo on November 8. The autopsy performed on the body of 50-year-old Ronald Moku Kahapea of Hilo was inconclusive on the exact cause […]

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The preliminary pathological results from an autopsy performed on the 57 year-old Hilo man indicate that foul play was not involved. The medical examiner who performed the examination said that Roy Lemon died as a result of “blunt force injury” and the injury appeared consistent with a fall. Detectives are awaiting the findings of a […]

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Big Island Police are investigating the death of a 19-month-old girl in Hilo. At about 6:57 p.m. on January 2, South Hilo patrol officers responded to Hilo Medical Center to a report of an unresponsive infant who had been transported there by an adult.

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Hawai’i Police Department detectives have identified one potential witness captured on a surveillance video but are still seeking the occupants of a vehicle who may be witnesses to events surrounding the death of 5-year-old Javieanne Win. In reviewing surveillance videos, detectives observed a small sports-utility vehicle turning right from Shipman Street onto Kamehameha Avenue. Detectives […]

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