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Hawaiʻi Island police are asking for the public’s assistance identifying two men suspected of theft during an incident that took place in Ocean View on Palm Parkway at 4:00 p.m. on December 7, 2024. During the course of the incident,...

An elderly Hilo woman was critically injured and an elderly Hilo man was arrested for DUI following a single motor-vehicle collision on Thursday, January 30, 2025, on Kaumana Drive, just below Aipuni Street, in Hilo. Responding to the 4:54 p.m....

Thirteen police recruits became solo officers following the Hawai’i Police Department’s 100th Police Recruit Class ceremony on Friday, January 31, 2025, in Hilo at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel Moku Ola Ballroom. Each new officer had their badge pinned on by...

Hawai‘i Island police are investigating a fatal traffic collision between a motor vehicle and a motorcycle that occurred on Highway 11 in Kea‘au on Sunday morning, February 2, 2025.   Responding to a traffic collision call at 10:32 a.m., police learned...

Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 15-year-old Divine Benn, who was reported as a runaway. Benn was last seen in the Pāhoa area on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, at 8:00 p.m. wearing a gray jacket,...

Police Chief Benjamin Moszkowicz has promoted 38 individuals within Hawai‘i Police Department: One to the rank of Assistant Chief, one to the rank of Major, two to the rank of Captain, nine to the rank of Lieutenant, five to the...

Hawai‘i Police Chief Benjamin Moszkowicz invites members of the public to take the department’s Community Satisfaction Survey, which runs Saturday, February 1, 2025, through 4:00 p.m. February 28, 2025. The department conducts the survey every two years as part of...

Hawai‘i Island police detectives have arrested and charged 40-year-old Spencer Kamuela Young Gun Chun, of Kurtistown, for intentionally striking a pedestrian with his vehicle in the parking lot of a shopping center in Pāhoa. The charges against Chun stem from...

Hawai‘i Island police are renewing their request for the public’s assistance in locating two juvenile runaways. 17-year-old Mary Costner, was last seen on foot near Maku‘u Drive and 8th Avenue in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision in Kea‘au, on Monday,...