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Missing Person Matthew Machado, a 31-year-old man, has been located.

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HawaiÊ»i Island police are investigating a firearms incident initially reported as “gunshots fired” in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision in lower Puna. Responding officers contacted a group of individuals near the area where the shots were reported, although the preliminary investigation has thus far indicated that no shots were fired. Detectives assigned to the Criminal […]

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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 4:47 a.m. alarm Wednesday (Dec 7) for a structure fire on 29th Avenue (Poni Moi Ave) in Hawaiian Paradise Park in Puna. Crews arrived to find a 30-by-30 foot single story unpermitted wooden home with a metal roof engulfed in flames. Firefighters had the fire under control by 5:02 a.m. […]

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A PāpaÊ»ikou man faces burglary and theft charges, thanks in part to neighbors who confronted him at a construction site. On Friday (December 2), Puna District officers responded to a report of a burglary on 25th Avenue in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision. Arriving officers learned that neighbors, including an off-duty police officer, had confronted […]

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The man who died Thursday afternoon following an officer-involved shooting has been identified as 36-year-old BJ Medeiros of Keaʻau. An autopsy conducted Friday determined that he died from a gunshot wound to his torso.

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Fire/rescue crews responded to an 11:47 a.m. alarm Tuesday (June 28) to 15-1726 32nd Avenue in Hawaiian Paradise Park for a structure fire. Crews arrived to find a single story home about 40 feet by 50 foot with fire coming out on the garage side of the residence. Heavy black and gray smoke was coming […]

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HawaiÊ»i Island police are renewing their request for information about a robbery on January 26 in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision in Puna. Sometime between 8:45 a.m. and 9 a.m., a 30-year-old woman was checking her mailbox on Paradise Drive near the intersection of 21st Avenue when she was confronted by a man with a […]

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Two people have been arrested and charged with crimes in connection with a stolen vehicle. On Saturday (March 26) a Toyota 4Runner was taken from 19th Avenue in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision in Puna. On Monday, Officers spotted the Toyota on Saddle Road and followed it to Hilo, where a man and a woman […]

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Detectives have arrested a 34-year-old man for the murder of an unidentified man whose badly decomposed body was found over the weekend in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision in Puna. An autopsy conducted on the unidentified human remains ruled the death as a homicide. The medical examiner concluded that the body was that of an […]

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Hawaiʻi Island police are releasing the name of a man who went missing last weekend while fishing from a cliff in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision in Puna. He has been identified as 51-year-old Joseph M. Leialoha of Keaʻau.

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Search crews spent a third day Tuesday (Sept 29) searching for a missing fisherman at the Kaloli Point area of Hawaiian Paradise Park. A witness saw the fisherman swept off the shoreline cliff by high surf conditions about 2:30 p.m. Saturday. The man was last seen floating in the water about 50 meters offshore.

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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 2:33 p.m. alarm Saturday (Sept 26) to the shoreline off Kaloli Point at Hawaiian Paradise Park for a missing fisherman. A witness saw the fisherman swept off the shoreline cliff by high surf conditions. The man was last seen in the water about 50 meters off shore.

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HawaiÊ»i Island police are investigating an incident Wednesday evening in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision in Puna. In response to an 8:25 p.m. call, officers received a report that two men wearing masks had gone to a home on 23rd Avenue and assaulted a 64-year-old man. The men then reportedly fled the area in a […]

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Hawaiʻi Island police have located 13-year-old Yasmine Butterfield of Keaʻau, who was reported missing. She was found unharmed Tuesday afternoon (August 18) in Hilo.

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