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MEDIA RELEASE Police have charged two men with various offenses stemming from an incident early Saturday morning (Sept. 28) in Hilo. At 3:27 a.m. Saturday, police responded to a report of a 19-year-old Hilo man who had allegedly been assaulted in front of a closed business establishment on the 1700 block of Kamehameha Avenue in […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Police have charged a man in connection with a robbery Wednesday night at a restaurant in Kailua-Kona. At approximately 10:30 p.m. Wednesday (Sept. 11), after the restaurant had closed, an unknown man entered the premises near the intersection of Palani Road and Kuakini Highway, approached a female employee from behind, threatened her with […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Police have located one of the 30-year-old men previously charged in connection to a home invasion robbery that occurred in July 2013 in the Leilani Estates Subdivision in Puna. On Monday (Sept. 16), detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigation Section arrested and charged Mark McCurley on the strength of a grand jury […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Police are investigating a robbery Wednesday night at a restaurant in Kailua-Kona. At approximately 10:30 p.m. Wednesday (Sept. 11), after the restaurant had closed, an unknown man entered the premises near the intersection of Palani Road and Kuakini Highway, approached a female employee from behind, threatened her with a weapon, forced her into […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Police are renewing their request for information about a robbery and auto theft last week in the Leilani Estates subdivision in Puna. A 41-year-old man reported that sometime between midnight and 3 a.m. Aug. 20, he was assaulted outside his house on Maile Street and a car was stolen from the driveway. The […]

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Hawaiʻi Island police are renewing their request for information about a robbery and auto theft last week in the Leilani Estates subdivision in Puna. A 41-year-old man reported that sometime between midnight and 3 a.m. on August 20, he was assaulted outside his house on Maile Street and a car was stolen from the driveway.

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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaii Island police have located two 30-year-old Puna men who being sought in connection with a robbery in the Leilani Estates subdivision last month. Mark McCurley of Hawaiian Beaches and Kawika Kahee of the Black Sand subdivision were arrested at 11 a.m. Tuesday (Aug. 20) during a warrants sweep in Hawaiian Beaches. At […]

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HawaiÊ»i Island police are searching for an 18-year-old man wanted on a warrant of arrest. Tyler Taylor is wanted in connection with a Grand Jury indictment related to a robbery at Kolekole Beach Park on February 6. He is described as 5-foot-6, 150 pounds with short black hair. He has no permanent address but frequents […]

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Hawaiʻi Island police have arrested a suspect in connection with a robbery Thursday afternoon (May 30) at a credit union in Pepeʻekeo. Investigation of the 1 p.m. robbery at the Hāmākua Coast Community Federal Credit Union led to the identity of a suspect, 27-year-old Kris R. Villasista of Honomū.

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Hawai‘i Island police are investigating a robbery at a credit union in Pepe‘ekeo on Thursday afternoon (May 30). Shortly after 1 p.m., a masked man pointed what appeared to be a handgun at two tellers at the Hāmākua Coast Community Federal Credit Union and demanded cash. He fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of […]

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HawaiÊ»i Island police have arrested and charged 31-year-old Bernard K. Antoque, who was wanted in connection with the robbery of a taxi driver in Hilo. Antoque, who has no permanent address, was arrested Thursday evening (April 11) on suspicion of robbery and held at the Hilo police cellblock while detectives from the Area I Criminal […]

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Police have charged a 25-year-old Pahoa man for several offenses stemming from an armed robbery that occurred last year in Hilo. Yesterday (March 12, 2013) at 4:40 pm, upon conferring with prosecutors, detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigation Section charged Patrick John Lindsey for first degree burglary, attempted first degree robbery, two counts of […]

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A Kona man has been charged with kidnapping and other offenses in connection with a robbery last week in Kailua-Kona. On February 17, Kona patrol officers responded to an apartment on the 75-5000 block of Lamaokeola Street in Kailua-Kona to a reported robbery.

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On February 15 at 2:24 p.m., a 13-year-old Kailua-Kona girl reported that she had been waiting for a Hele-On bus at the intersection of Kealakaʻa Street and Kealakehe Street when two women approached her, attacked her and stole her backpack. The victim sustained a laceration to her lip and abrasions to her leg and arms.

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