Media Releases

Officers with the Hawaiʻi Police Department’s Hilo Community Policing Section recently provided more than 200 Keiki Identification (ID) cards to young players during a statewide youth baseball tournament on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. The event was a tremendous success, allowing...

Hawai‘i Island police have charged 31-year-old Pomaikai Olson, of Nā‘ālehu, with an array of offenses following a violent traffic-related crime spree in Volcano on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 11, 2025. On Monday afternoon, Oct. 13, after conferring with the Office of...

The Big Island chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) honored Detective Jason Grouns with the first-ever Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Officer of the Year award on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, in Hilo. The award was presented just...

Hawai‘i Island police have arrested 31-year-old Pomaikai Olson, of Nā‘ālehu for first-degree robbery following a violent crime spree in Volcano on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 11, 2025. At 4:43 p.m., police dispatch received numerous calls regarding a reckless driver traveling Hilo-bound...

Hawai’i Island police detectives have identified the second female whose remains were recovered from within the debris of a downed banyan tree on Kilauea Avenue in Hilo, on July 20, 2025. She has been positively identified by DNA comparison, as...

As part of their ongoing community outreach to listen to community members, Hawai‘i Police Department is holding six Coffee With a Cop events in west Hawai‘i from Kailua-Kona to Kealakekua during October in order for the public can get to...

Hawai‘i Island police are investigating an incident in which more than 20 sheep were killed on a 200-acre ranch in the 15-2000 block of the Government Beach Road in Pāhoa sometime between Friday, October 3, and Monday, October 6, 2025....

As part of its continuing community outreach about the dangers of fentanyl, Hawai‘i Police Department (HPD) provides monthly updates on the amount of fentanyl related arrests (possession/distribution) in Hawai‘i County and the quantity of fentanyl recovered for the preceding month....

For his exceptional professionalism, calm under pressure, and life-saving actions during a potentially deadly incident, Kona Patrol Officer Michael Gusman has been recognized as the October 2025 Officer of the Month by the Kona Crime Prevention Committee. On June 12,...