Media Releases

During the week of January 27, through February 2, 2025, Hawai`i Island police arrested 12 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Six of the drivers were involved in a traffic crash. None of the drivers were under...

Super Bowl LIX is Sunday, February 9, 2025, and the Hawai‘i Police Department and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are teaming up to remind drivers: Fans Don’t Let Fans Drive Drunk. Get ahead of...

Hawai’i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance identifying the suspect in an investigation of a theft that occurred on December 29, 2024, just after 7 p.m. in the 75-5700 block of Al’i Drive in Kailua-Kona. Responding to the...

Hawai‘i Police Department reports that the 86-year-old woman injured in a single motor vehicle collision in Hilo on Thursday, January 30, 2025, has passed away. The woman, identified as Yvonne Mira of Hilo, was pronounced deceased on February 3, at...

Police have identified the individual who died in a traffic collision in Kea‘au on Sunday, February 2, 2025, as 32-year-old, Negozi Young of Mountain View. Responding to a traffic collision call at 10:32 a.m., police learned that three motorcycles were...

Hawai‘i Island police are investigating a fatal traffic collision involving a motorcycle and a dump truck that occurred Monday afternoon, February 3, 2025, on Keaau-Pahoa Road, (Highway 130), just south of the Pāhoa Police Station.   Responding to a reported...

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...