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Four years ago, after an operation in rural Indiana resulted in the largest single recovery of cultural property in FBI history, the Bureau’s Art Crime Team faced an unprecedented challenge: how to identify the rightful owners of more than 7,000 seized artifacts that came from locations spanning the globe.

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A federal inmate, Taloa Latu, 29, was sentenced today to 8 years of imprisonment for committing an assault resulting in serious bodily injury to another inmate. Following his incarceration, Latu will be on supervised release for 3 years.

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Two Iranian men have been charged with deploying a sinister type of ransomware that crippled the operations of hospitals, municipalities, public institutions, and other critical networks in the United States and Canada, officials from the Department of Justice and the FBI announced today.

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Between October 22 and 24, 2018, suspicious packages were received at multiple locations in the New York and Washington, D.C., areas, and Florida. The packages are being sent for analysis at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia. “This investigation is of the highest priority for the FBI. We have committed the full strength of the […]

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In the past three months, 15 people from Hawaii were charged with drug or violent crimes in the U.S. District Court in Honolulu, and 13 firearms, 543 rounds of ammunition, approximately 13 pounds of methamphetamine, and over $35,000 were seized, as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (“PSN”). Due to these prosecutions and others, the U.S. […]

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FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Sean L. Kaul announced today that the FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest of the individual(s) responsible for the disappearance of Jonathan Fraser.

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U.S. District Court Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi sentenced Marc Hubbard, age 50, to 57 months in prison today for defrauding the University of Hawaii in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. Hubbard pled guilty to the offense on October 4, 2016.

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FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Paul D. Delacourt announced today the arrest of a Waipahu man on terrorism charges. Ikaika Kang, age 34, an active duty soldier assigned to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, was arrested by an FBI SWAT team on July 8, 2017, for providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and […]

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Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) operations at Honolulu International Airport have returned to normal following an in-flight incident aboard an American Airlines flight from LAX to HNL Friday (May 19). All airport security stakeholders were notified and were standing by on the ground to respond if needed. The Hawaii Air National Guard scrambled fighter planes […]

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Hawaiʻi Island police are investigating an incident reported in South Kohala on Tuesday (December 5) by a local vehicle tow company. At about 9:40 a.m. the tow company reported receiving a phone call from an individual about a car in the company’s possession. After taking a closer look, the owner of the tow company became […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Director James B. Comey has named Paul D. Delacourt special agent in charge of the FBI’s Honolulu Division. Delacourt most recently served in the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters (FBIHQ) in Washington, D.C., where he led reviews of field offices, national programs, shooting incidents, and special projects. Delacourt began his career as a […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Senior U.S. District Judge Alan C. Kay has sentenced Kali Lotoaiki Laulea, 33, of Kailua-Kona, to 155 months’ imprisonment for three counts of methamphetamine distribution. A federal jury found Laulea guilty of the three charges in August after a five-day trial. Florence T. Nakakuni, U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii, said the […]

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Federal law enforcement has taken action against over 400 Tor hidden service .onion addresses, including dozens of “dark market” websites, that were offering a range of illegal goods and services for sale on the “Tor” network, a special network of computers on the Internet designed to conceal the locations of individuals using it.

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MEDIA RELEASE The FBI is looking for Billy Hanson, who is believed to be traveling with Jeffrey Ford Hanson. The joint effort continues to locate 9-year-old Billy Hanson quickly and safely. Investigators believe that Billy may traveling with 46-year-old Jeffrey Ford Hanson on a 1976 White Cooper sailboat, named the Draco, somewhere on the Pacific […]

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