Month: May 2025

Hawaiʻi Island police are searching for 35-year-old Jacklyn Aquino who was last seen on South Kopua Road in Glenwood on the morning of May 5, 2025. She is described as being 5’02” tall, weighing approximately 120 pounds, having a dark…

The Hawai’i Police Department reports that 56-year-old John Allan Lilly, who was previously reported as a missing person, was located in good health on Thursday, May 8, 2025, in New Jersey.

Hawai‘i Island police have charged Bailey Preston, a 21-year-old, Detroit man with second-degree reckless endangering after school employees reported hearing multiple gunshots near Highway 130 at the 11-mile marker on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. In response to hearing the gunshots,…

Hawai’i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 50-year-old Sema Banu Sekendur of no permanent address, in Hilo. She was reported missing on February 25, 2025, last seen in July of 2024 in Downtown Hilo. Sekendur is…

Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 14-year-old Kawelo Lancaster who was reported as a runaway. Lancaster was last seen on Pikake Street in the Fern Acres Subdivision in Mountain View on Monday May 5, 2025,…

Hawai‘i Island police have arrested a man for second-degree reckless endangering after school employees reported hearing multiple gunshots near Highway 130 at the 11-mile marker on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. In response to hearing the gunshots, a nearby Charter School…

Hawai’i Island police are requesting the public’s assistance in identifying the suspect in a Hilo burglary who was captured on video surveillance removing two bicycles.  The burglary occurred on Friday, February 21, 2025, at approximately 7:30 a.m., at a business…

Hawai’i Island police have identified the male pedestrian who died following a Hilo traffic collision on Thursday, May 1, 2025, in the area of the Waiānuenue Avenue and Rainbow Drive intersection. The man has been identified as 69-year-old James R.…

Sergeant Eric Ontiveros (Left)/Officer Paul Wright III (Center)/Acting Captain Pernell Hanoa (Right). Ka‘ū Patrol Officer Paul Wright III was awarded the first-ever “Officer of the Quarter” for Q1 2025 on May 2, 2025, during a ceremony at a restaurant in…