Media Releases

Hawaiʻi Island police are asking for the public’s help in locating a vehicle stolen from the 100 block of Wainaku Street in Hilo on Thursday morning, April 24, 2025. The vehicle is a white 2011 Toyota Tacoma Prerunner with Hawaiʻi...

Earl Hind with vessel Makalapua Onalani Hawaiʻi Island police are renewing their request for information regarding 42-year-old Earl Kekuanaoa Hind, a local fisherman last known to have launched his vessel from the South Point area on Monday, April 7, 2025....

Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 47-year-old Nicole Bullock, who was reported missing. She is considered endangered as she may be in need of medical assistance. Bullock was last contacted at 4:00 a.m. on Friday,...

Hawai‘i Island police are again renewing their request for information regarding 30-year-old Shanice Ogata-Staudinger, of Pāhoa, who was reported missing in July 2023. On the morning of July 9, 2023, Ogata-Staudinger was reportedly picking opihi with a relative in the...

Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating two female runaways. Divine Benn Divine Benn, age 15, (Report #: 25-009376), was reported as a runaway on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. She was last seen at her residence...

Hawai‘i Island police detectives have charged 42-year-old Patricia Ann McConnell, of Pāhoa, with murder following a reported domestic dispute in Nānāwale, late Thursday night, April 24, 2025. On Friday evening, April 25, upon conferring with the Hawai‘i County Prosecuting Attorney’s...

Hawai‘i Police Department is investigating a single-vehicle traffic collision in North Kona, north of Pu‘uanahulu, that left a 75-year-old Kailua-Kona man in critical condition. Responding to a call at 1:19 a.m., officers determined that a gray 2009 Nissan Frontier pickup...

Hawai‘i Island police have initiated a murder investigation following a reported domestic dispute in Nānāwale late Thursday night, April 24, 2025. At 11:25 p.m., Puna patrol officers responded to a residence on Lehua Road in the Nānāwale Estates subdivision in...

Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating two male teens from Puna, who were reported as runaways in the same incident. Both runaways were last seen on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, at 12:20 p.m. on Kea‘au-Pāhoa...