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Hawaiʻi Island police are renewing their request for information on the whereabouts of a 33-year-old Puna man wanted on outstanding warrants and for other investigations. Ronald Joseph Kong of Mountain View is described as 5-foot-9, about 190 pounds with brown hair and eyes. He is known to frequent the Puna District.

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Hawaiʻi Island police have located 17-year-old Zaxsalyn Guerpo of Mountain View, who was reported missing. She was found in Kona in good health on January 27.

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Hawaiʻi Island police are renewing their request for information about a burglary on June 10, when an all-terrain vehicle and other items were stolen from a Mountain View coffee plantation.

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HawaiÊ»i Island police are asking for the public’s help in locating a man wanted for threatening a family member with a firearm. In response to a 5:38 p.m. call Monday (October 19) to the 18-1700 block of Ihope Road in Mountain View, Puna Patrol officers learned that 59-year-old Mark Scott Silva had gone to the […]

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Hawaiʻi Island police are searching for a 32-year-old Puna man who was reported missing. A mainland relative of Gregory Voight of Mountain View reported him missing on August 27. He is described as 6-feet tall, 180 pounds with blue eyes, short brown hair and a beard and mustache.

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HawaiÊ»i Island police have charged a Mountain View man for several offenses stemming from an incident that occurred on Thursday (Aug 20), at a residence on Mauna Lani Track Road in Mountain View. Jomal Ford, a 37-year-old man, was charged with four counts of attempted murder in the First Degree, and one count of Resist […]

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At approximately 1:48 p.m. Puna Patrol officers and State of Hawai’i Sheriff’s attempted to serve a bench warrant at a residence on Mauna Lani Tract Road when a vehicle sped towards the officers in a threatening manner. In response, a police officer fired three shots and a deputy sheriff fired two shots towards the vehicle, […]

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Mountain View woman has been charged with two felonies in connection with a burglary in Hawaiian Acres. On July 22, a woman returned to her home on Road 9 in Hawaiian Acres and discovered that it had been broken into. A woman in a vehicle in front of her house claimed she had car trouble. […]

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HawaiÊ»i Island police are asking the public’s help in locating an all-terrain vehicle stolen during a burglary at a Mountain View coffee plantation on June 10. Some of the items taken during the burglary have since been recovered. The ATV is among the items still outstanding. It is described as a Kawasaki 750 “Brute Force” […]

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HawaiÊ»i Island police have charged the Puna man who was arrested for murder on Saturday (May 23). At 3:30 p.m. Sunday (May 24), 18-year-old Forrest Keesler of Mountain View was charged with second-degree murder. His bail was set at $250,000. He remains at the Hilo police cellblock pending his initial court appearance scheduled for Tuesday […]

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HawaiÊ»i Island police are investigating a suspected burglary and arson at a Puna business that resulted in approximately $20,000 in property damage. Puna Patrol Officers responded to a 2:15 a.m. call Thursday (May 21) reporting a structure fire at Verna’s Drive-In just off Highway 11 in the Mountain View area. Arriving officers found the front […]

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HawaiÊ»i Island police have arrested a Puna man whose actions on Friday (April 10) resulted in an officer-involved shooting in Puna. At 6:30 a.m. Sunday (April 12), detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigations Division executed a search warrant at the Mountain View home of 24-year-old Daesyn Pacheco-Muragin and arrested him on two outstanding bench […]

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A Puna man is in police custody after running into three cars in a stolen truck in a parking lot in Hilo. At 12:10 p.m. Wednesday (January 7) a police officer observed a stolen Toyota pickup truck in the parking lot of a home improvement store on MakaÊ»ala Street. The suspect jumped into the stolen […]

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HawaiÊ»i Police Department detectives have arrested a 22 year old Mountain View man in connection with a shooting that occurred on June 28, 2014, in the Eden Roc subdivision in Mountain View. Nicholas Stertz, 22-years-old, was arrested Friday (Dec 19) at 10:15 a.m. for Attempted Murder in the 2nd Degree. Stertz was subsequently released at […]

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