2025

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...

South Kohala Police Officer Michael Abran was selected by Special Olympics Hawai‘i to represent Hawai‘i in the ”Final Leg” of the lighting of the Special Olympics Torch in Italy. The “Final Leg” is a team of law enforcement officers and...

Hawai‘i Police Department Vice detectives, in partnership with the Hawai‘i Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, have arrested and charged 43-year-old Dawson Dominador Pilanca of Nā‘ālehu following a months-long investigation into child sexual exploitation. Pilanca was arrested and charged...

Hawai‘i Island police have launched a negligent homicide investigation after a male pedestrian died following a motor vehicle/pedestrian collision on Thursday evening, May 1, 2025, in Hilo near the intersection of Waiānuenue Avenue and Rainbow Drive. Officers responding to the...