UPDATED (1/25/19)

The Hawaiʻi Police Department has located 16-year-old Hiilei Peneku who was previously reported as missing.

She was located in Hilo last Friday (January 18) in good health.

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Hiilei Peneku

Hawaiʻi Island Police are searching for a 16-year-old female who was reported missing from the Honokaʻa Town area since, (January 16).

She is identified as Hiilei Peneku, about 5-feet-7-inches, 150 pounds, brown eyes, long brown hair, light complexion, and has a tattoo of a sunflower on her right shoulder.

Police ask that anyone with information on her whereabouts call the Police Department’s non-emergency line at (808) 935-3311 or Officer Luke Watkins of the Hāmakāa Patrol Division at (808) 775-7533 or email Sergeant Dean Uyetake at dean.uytetake@hawaiicounty.gov.