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Big Island police are searching for a 31-year-old Pāhoa woman who was reported as missing since January 24.

Kimberly Horoschak is described as Caucasian, 5-foot-4, 135 pounds, with blond hair and hazel eyes. She was sighted in Kohala on Monday (January 30) driving a white older-model Toyota 4Runner.

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Big Island police have reclassified the investigation of body a found Saturday in the Eden Roc subdivision from a coroner’s inquest to a murder.

An autopsy conducted Tuesday morning (January 31) determined that the victim died from a combination of ligature strangulation and a brain injury from a gunshot wound. The victim has been identified as 52-year-old Robert John Leong of Eden Roc.

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Big Island police are searching for a 17-year-old girl reported as missing from Puna since December 20.

Tihany Glimane is described as 5-foot-6, about 135 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

Police ask that anyone with information on her whereabouts call the Police Department’s non-emergency line at 935-3311. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous may call Crime Stoppers at 961-8300 in Hilo or 329-8181 in Kona. All Crime Stoppers information is kept confidential.

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Big Island police are investigating a body found in Puna as a coroner’s inquest.

Shortly after 6:52 am, Saturday (January 28), police received a report of a body found near a residence in the Eden Roc Subdivision. The unidentified man appeared to be in his 50s.

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Big Island police are asking for the public’s help in locating a 35-year-old Puna man wanted for driving recklessly and resisting an order to stop on January 12.

Samson Perez of the Ainaloa subdivision is described as part Hawaiian, 6-foot-1, 220 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

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An autopsy was conducted Friday (January 20) on a body found January 17 in the vicinity of Isaac Hale Beach Park in Pohoiki.

The victim was identified as 62-year-old Dennis Eugene White of Papaya Farms Road in Kapoho. The cause of death was a head injury.

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Big Island police are searching for a 17-year-old girl reported as missing from Puna since November 29.

Jazmyn Kalaukia Williams is described as 5-foot-3, about 125 pounds with long black hair and brown eyes.

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Big Island police are investigating a body found in Puna as a coroner’s inquest.

Shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday (January 17), a county lifeguard reported finding a partially submerged male body near the shoreline in the vicinity of Isaac Hale Beach Park in Pohoiki. The unidentified man appeared to be in his 50s.

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Hawaiian Paradise Park resident Greggor Ilagan declared his candidacy for the new District 4 seat representing Puna Makai on the Hawaii County Council to a group of supporters Friday.

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The National Weather Service in Honolulu has extended a Flood Advisory for the Big Island until 1 p.m.

At 9:48 a.m. radar showed heavy rain along the Southeast coast of the Puna district moving slowly upslope towards Volcano, Mountain View and Glenwood. Other areas affected by the advisory are Kapoho and Hawaiian Beaches.

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Big Island police have located 14-year-old Shyla Sakurai-Rilveria, who was reported missing.

She was found unharmed in Hilo on Monday (January 9).

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Big Island police are investigating a burglary in Puna that took place in November.

At about 2:25 p.m. on November 25, Puna patrol officers responded to a reported burglary on 26th Avenue in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision. They determined that between 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., a 72-year-old woman was confronted by five men while outside her house.

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