For the first four months of 2023, the Hawaiʻi Police Department made 22 fentanyl-related arrests, recovering 383 grams of fentanyl and 598 fentanyl pills.
Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating two 14-year-old girls who were reported as runaways in separate incidents in East Hawai‘i.
Keoni Patrick Keli‘ima Cassidy, 28 of Keauhou, was sentenced to 20 years for class A felony possession of 103 grams of heroin and other drugs on Monday in Kona Circuit Court on the Big Island.
Jason Leroy Kime, 36 of Oʻahu, was arrested after threatening Hawaiʻi Island police officers during a nearly 6-hour standoff Tuesday night at a self-storage unit on Kalanikoa Street in Hilo.