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Big Island Police are investigating a robbery Friday night (December 11) at the Shell service station on Kuakini Highway in Kailua-Kona. An unidentified man armed with a handgun entered the gas station’s convenience store with his face obscured and demanded money. He then fled the area on foot and headed southeast toward Kopiko Plaza with […]

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Big Island police are investigating a reported home invasion robbery that took place in Pāhoa early on the morning of September 8. Puna Patrol officers were dispatched to an Alapai Street home in the Leilani Estates subdivision, where a 26-year-old woman reported that an unknown man entered her home and demanded marijuana. The suspect physically […]

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Big Island Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who robbed a Waimea pharmacy on November 9. His image was captured on surveillance cameras. The man in camouflage clothing and armed with a handgun entered the pharmacy off Kawaihae Road and demanded Fentanyl and Oxycontin.

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Police have charged an Arizona man in connection with an attempted robbery Wednesday (October 14) along Ali’i Drive in Kailua-Kona. Emil Delao of Tucson, Arizona, was charged at 2:30 p.m. Saturday (October 17) with attempted robbery, kidnapping and terroristic threatening. An 18-year-old woman reported that she was walking by the rock wall of Hale O […]

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A Waikoloa man is in police custody in connection with a robbery in South Kohala. At 6:15 a.m. Thursday (September 10), South Kohala patrol officers responded to a report of a robbery at the Kings Shops, where someone had entered a store through a door that was unlocked for deliveries and removed liquor and other […]

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The Hawai’i Police Department is investigating an armed robbery at a Kailua-Kona convenience store Thursday morning (September 3). Just after 8 a.m., a man entered the ABC Store in the Coconut Grove complex on Ali’i Drive, attacked a 68-year-old female cashier with a knife and demanded that she open her cash register. The cashier was […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Detectives from the Hawai’i Police Department are investigating a robbery below the University of Hawaii at Hilo Campus early Tuesday morning (September 1). A 21-year old man and a 20-year old woman were walking along Kapi’olani Street between 12:30 a.m. and 1 a.m. when they were confronted by three males who demanded money. […]

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MEDIA RELEASE On May 11, 2009, shortly after 10:00 p.m., Kona Patrol officers responded to a report of a robbery occurring on Alii Drive. Responding officers determined a purse was snatched from the arms of a female Japanese tourist while walking on Alii Drive. During the robbery, the suspect grabbed at the victim’s purse causing […]

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View Larger Map MEDIA RELEASE The Hawai’i Police Department Criminal Investigation Section is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying two suspects in an assault and robbery incident that occurred at Ahalanui Beach Park parking lot in Pohiki, Puna, at around midnight on Saturday, December 13, 2008. The victim reported being punched by one suspect causing […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Hawai’i Police Department is investigating a reported robbery that occurred early Sunday (May 10) in Hilo. Responding to a 4:59 a.m. call of a possible robbery, police responded to an address on Pauahi Street, where they contacted a 52 year-old Hilo man who reported that a local male punched him in the […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Hawai’i Police Department is investigating a reported robbery early Thursday (May 7) in Hilo. Responding to a 2:24 a.m. call of a possible theft, police responded to a hotel on Banyan Drive. While en route, officers received additional information about an assault at the same location. Police determined that a 17-year-old boy […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Hawai’i Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Section in Kona is investigating a robbery Saturday (May 2) around 6:30 p.m. in Hawi. The 69-year-old victim reported that upon returning home to his apartment, a man wearing a dark ski mask approached him, held a silver handgun to his head and demanded money. He was […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaii Police are investigating a robbery reported early Monday, Jan. 12 in Hilo. At about 2:40 a.m., South Hilo patrol officers responded to a report of a man being assaulted at Kalakaua Park in downtown Hilo. Sometime between 2:30 a.m. and 2:35 a.m. Monday, an unidentified Caucasian man approached the victim and asked […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Two men arrested for a late-night robbery Sunday, Jan. 4 at a movie theater in Kailua-Kona were charged with first-degree robbery and other offenses Tuesday afternoon. Twenty-four-year-old Darrell L. Silva Jr. and 21-year-old Ryan Tobias, both of Kailua-Kona, are being held at the Kona police cellblock, each in lieu of $4,750 bail. At […]

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