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Big Island police have located 15-year-old Jaysha Arnold, who was reported missing. She was found unharmed Wednesday (May 2) in Hilo.

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Big Island police are asking for the public’s help in locating a 20-year-old Puna man wanted for questioning.

Dyson Kepano of Keaʻau is described as 5-foot-6, 135 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. He is known to frequent the Puna and Hilo districts.

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A 51-year-old Puna man died Wednesday (May 2) from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle crash at the intersection of Route 130 and Leilani Avenue in Pāhoa.

Responding to a 9:54 a.m. call, Puna patrol officers determined that the man was operating a 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle and traveling west on Leilani Avenue when he failed to stop at the stop sign, went through the intersection onto a private driveway and struck a gate.

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In response to a 3:37 a.m. call, Puna patrol officers received a report that a 43-year-old Pāhoa man was at a 24-hour convenience store in Pāhoa at around 2 a.m. when an acquaintance parked in the area offered him a ride home.

The victim accepted the ride and was driven to an area off of Kaʻohe Homestead Road in Pāhoa, where the suspect reportedly assaulted him and removed undisclosed items.

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Big Island police have located 17-year-old Noriko Miranda Rigaud of Puna, who was reported missing.

She was found unharmed in Keaʻau on Saturday afternoon (April 28).

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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 2:38 p.m. alarm Sunday (April 22) for a structure fire in Black Sands Subdivion on Aloha Road.

Firefighters found smoke and flames coming from the storage area on the ground level of a raised wood frame home.

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Food, games, entertainment, science, art projects along with an Earth Day trash fashion show and puppet show highlight the day’s events.

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Big Island police have charged a 43-year-old man who was arrested Wednesday (April 18) in connection with a stabbing incident in Kāpoho.

Jeffrey Robert Perkins of Kāpoho was charged at 11:45 a.m. Friday morning (April 20) with one count of first-degree assault and seven counts of second-degree assault. His bail was set at $19,000.

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Responding to an 11:11 p.m. call Wednesday (April 18) at a home near the 7-mile marker on Route 132 in Kāpoho, arriving officers discovered a 28-year-old Kāpoho man with a severe head wound and lacerations, a 25 -year-old Kāpoho woman with a severe laceration to her upper body, and a 45-year-old Kāpoho woman with a minor injury being treated by Fire Department rescue personnel.

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Big Island police have arrested a 19-year Puna man in connection with an internet scam and are looking for additional victims.

Four victims on the mainland reported that they responded to a posting on Craig’s List by someone claiming to be selling tickets to the sold-out Coachella Music Festival being held this weekend in Indio, California.

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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 9:17 a.m. alarm Sunday (April 15) to a structure fire in Puna.

Crews found flames and smoke coming from the rear of a home on Kekauonohi Place in Pahoa. The fire was contained to a garage structure housing an outside kitchen with a propane stove.

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Big Island police are renewing their request for information about a 25-year-old Puna man who was reported missing last year.

Robert Manuel De Castro was last seen on Ainaloa Drive in Pāhoa on December 20. He has a medical condition that requires medication.

He is also wanted for questioning in an unrelated incident.

De Castro is described as Caucasian, 5-foot-11, 260 pounds with brown hair, blue eyes and tattoos on his right arm.

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