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MEDIA RELEASE While being detained by Sheriffs in the holding cage outside the District Court in Kona, Cheyanne Collins managed to squeeze out through a small space in the locked double gate. Deputy Sheriffs pursued and captured her, without incident, in the parking lot. The entire event happened within a 5 minute period around 11 […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Big Island Sheriffs have a new option for firearms training, thanks to a new agreement with the U.S. Army Garrison Pohakuloa. Lt. Colonel Eric Shwedo, commander of the U.S. Army Garrison Pohakuloa, Command Sergeant Major Alan Higgs, Public Safety Director Ted Sakai and Lt. Pat Kawai with the Sheriff Division, gathered last week […]

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Sixteen individuals were arrested on HawaiÊ»i Island during a Hawaii Fugitive Task Force warrant sweep on September 14. Participating in the task force were officers and agents from the United States Marshals Office, the state Department of Public Safety’s Sheriff Division and the HawaiÊ»i Police Department.

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A 19-year-old Waikoloa man who was the subject of a one-and-a-half-hour manhunt is in police custody facing possible escape charges. Airiel Jost , who was at the Waimea courthouse for resisting an order to stop and two counts of theft, was in the process of being arrested on a $10,000 contempt of court warrant Tuesday […]

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