Peter Boylan

Honolulu police leaders say moving 100 officers from specialized assignments back to patrol will help address staffing shortages and mounting overtime costs tied to a $34 million budget gap.

The Honolulu Police Department is reevaluating its planned Nov. 1 re­assignment of 100 officers to bolster patrol staffing after community backlash over the shutdown of the Junior Police Officer program, Police Activities League, and other initiatives.

A plan to move 100 Honolulu police officers to patrol is under review as the department weighs the future of long-running youth programs while confronting a projected $34 million budget shortfall.

A Waipahu woman will spend two years in federal prison and pay more than $1 million in restitution for filing false tax returns for an unlicensed construction business and applying for COVID-19 unemployment assistance she didn’t deserve.

The Honolulu Police Department’s evolving reassignment of officers to patrol districts comes as the department is working to fill 453 uniformed and 182 civilian vacancies as of Oct. 1.

A 28-year-old Waipahu man will spend 22 years in federal prison for using the gaming platform Roblox and chat application Discord to lure at least 10 underage girls into making child pornography.

Honolulu police seized more than $21,000 in cash and a loaded firearm from an illegal gambling operation in Wahiawa.

A 49-year-old ex-U.S. Army official is scheduled to make his initial appearance after he was accused by federal prosecutors of taking $1.25 million in bribes over five years to steer contracts to companies from the military’s Hawaii-­Pacific Innovation Campus.

A 51-year-old felon is facing a federal criminal charge after he allegedly opened fire during a road-rage incident Sept. 21 and hit an Aiea Elementary School building, prompting a lunch-hour lockdown.

A 24-year-old Las Vegas man accused of coercing a 13-year-old girl into sending him sexually explicit footage of herself and then blackmailing her is asking to be released from federal custody into the care of his cousin before trial.