HONOLULU — In the past three months, 15 people from Hawaii were charged with drug or violent crimes in the U.S. District Court in Honolulu, and 13 firearms, 543 rounds of ammunition, approximately 13 pounds of methamphetamine, and over $35,000 were seized, as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods.
HONOLULU — In the past three months, 15 people from Hawaii were charged with drug or violent crimes in the U.S. District Court in Honolulu, and 13 firearms, 543 rounds of ammunition, approximately 13 pounds of methamphetamine, and over $35,000 were seized, as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods.
Due to these prosecutions and others, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Hawaii is on pace to file approximately twice as many firearms and violent crime indictments in Fiscal Year 2018 as it did in the previous two fiscal years.
“Project Safe Neighborhoods brings the expertise and resources of federal law enforcement to bear on our local community issues,” aid Justin F. Kollar, prosecuting attorney for the County of Kauai. “We are grateful for the partnership of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and all our federal partners in dismantling drug cartels and violent criminal enterprises.”
U.S. Attorney Kenji M. Price said Project Safe Neighborhoods is fundamentally about getting Hawaii’s most violent offenders off our streets.
“Along with our federal and local law enforcement partners, we are committed to working tirelessly to make our community safer by targeting for prosecution the most dangerous offenders in Hawaii,” he said.
These cases were investigated by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Marshals Service, state of Hawaii Department of Public Safety, state of Hawaii Department of the Attorney General, and the police departments and prosecutor’s offices of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai Counties and the City and County of Honolulu.
