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Witnesses: Kealohas Targeted Uncle Years Before Mailbox Theft
Two years before Gerard Puana was accused of stealing Louis and Katherine Kealoha’s mailbox, he was arrested at his home on Wilhelmina Rise for illegally entering a neighbor’s house after a...
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Three Council Members Call For Halt To Waimanalo Ball Field Project
Opposition is mounting inside the Honolulu City Council to stop a controversial construction project at Waimanalo Bay Beach Park, also known as Sherwood Forest. Three council members — Council Chairman...
View ArticleEx-Honolulu Cop’s Plea Deal Avoids Jail For Child Sex Assaults
(AP) — A plea deal with prosecutors will allow a former Hawaii police officer to serve probation rather than jail time for sexually assaulting a child, reports said. Teddy O. Van Lerberghe, 45, reached...
View ArticleResults Announced In Oahu Neighborhood Board Elections
The 2019 election results are in for most of the 435 seats on Oahu’s 33 neighborhood boards. Board members are volunteers who help shape policies and initiatives for all levels of government. This...
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City Council Targets Decision To Pay For Louis Kealoha’s Legal Defense
A Honolulu Police Commission decision to pay for some of former Police Chief Louis Kealoha’s legal defense in a federal corruption case should be challenged in state Circuit Court, a City Council...
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Kealoha Trial: Prosecutors Try To Show HPD Tampered With Key Evidence
What happened to the hard drive that was recovered from Louis and Katherine Kealoha’s home on June 22, 2013, the day after their mailbox was stolen? That was a central question posed by federal...
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Caldwell Unveils Tax Plans To Increase Affordable Housing
Among Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s plans for addressing Oahu’s affordable housing shortage are proposals to levy heftier taxes on high-end investment properties and impose other taxes on vacant...
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Defense: ‘Excited Delirium,’ Not Excessive Force, Killed Sheldon Haleck
Sheldon Haleck’s encounter with police on the night before his death lasted just over four minutes. During that period of time starting at 8:18 p.m. on March 16, 2015, something caused him to lose...
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Kealoha Trial: ‘That’s Not The Way That Mailbox Should Come Off’
Federal public defender Alexander Silvert finally had his moment Friday. Silvert took the witness stand in the criminal trial of Louis and Katherine Kealoha to testify about how he uncovered what he...
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Kealoha Trial: ‘I Thought It Was Uncle Gerry Right Off The Bat’
Honolulu Police Officer Minh-Hung “Bobby” Nguyen told a federal grand jury years ago he had no doubt the man caught on surveillance video stealing the mailbox of Louis and Katherine Kealoha in 2013 was...
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Chad Blair: What I Learned Renewing My License At The DMV
I blame my recent difficulties in renewing my Hawaii driver’s license on Osama bin Laden. Sure, the al-Qaeda terrorist was killed in 2011. But the horror of the Sept. 11 attacks a decade earlier and...
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She Says She Was Betrayed By Her Granddaughter, Katherine Kealoha
Florence Puana, 99, cried when a federal prosecutor asked her about her relationship with her granddaughter, Katherine Kealoha. “She was a loving, loving gentle person and I trusted her,” said Puana....
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Over 5 Years, 373 Oahu Homeless People Died
Officials from the City and County of Honolulu issued a press release Wednesday stating that 373 people who were considered homeless at the time of their deaths died on Oahu from 2014 through 2018. The...
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‘We Were The Best Of Friends’: Gerard Puana Testifies In Kealoha Trial
Gerard Puana took the witness stand in the U.S. District Court of Hawaii on Wednesday and was asked a simple question by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Wheat, the special prosecutor in what has become...
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City Council OKs Court Challenge Over Louis Kealoha Legal Fees
The Honolulu City Council unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday that asks the city’s lawyers to appeal a Police Commission decision to partially pay for Louis Kealoha’s legal fees associated with...
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Honolulu City Council Approves $23 Million To Aid The Homeless
Shelters, outreach centers and affordable housing units are among the potential projects to address homelessness that will be funded by nearly $23 million allocated by the Honolulu City Council on...
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Some Community Leaders In Kailua Want To Break Up With Honolulu
Fed up with what they view as mismanagement and corruption, some members of the Kailua Neighborhood Board want to see the windward side of Oahu secede from the City and County of Honolulu. The new...
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Jury: No Excessive Force In Sheldon Haleck’s Death
Honolulu police officers did not use excessive force in trying to arrest a man the night before he died in 2015, a federal jury concluded Thursday. The eight-member jury reached its verdict after more...
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Ex-City Ethics Director: When We Got Close The Kealohas Fought Back
Before the FBI, before the special prosecutor, before the grand jury, there was Chuck Totto. The former Honolulu Ethics Commission executive director testified Thursday in the criminal trial of former...
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Makiki Loved Its ‘People’s Library’— So Why Did It Close?
The much-loved Makiki Community Library, a gathering place for generations, is gone for good. The aging volunteers who had staffed the unique 42-year-old library, known for its rich menu of children’s...
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