In just four months on the job, Hawaiʻi Police Department Chief Ben Moszkowicz has created and implemented a new recruitment effort to fill the vacancies of 67 sworn officers.
Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 17-year-old Kelis Garmon-Mercado, who was reported as a runaway and was last seen on March 26.
A 65-year-old man who died following a single-vehicle collision on March 7, near the intersection of Hinalani Street and Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway in North Kona, has been positively identified as Kevin Patrick McHugh of Kailua-Kona.