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The newly organized Maui Police Foundation will celebrate its launch with a community fundraiser at Café O’ Lei at the Dunes in Kahului on Wednesday, Nov. 14, from 5 to 8 p.m.

The Maui Police Department today announced the promotion of Detective Jeraul Pladera to the rank of Lieutenant.  Pladera is a 17-year police veteran, most recently serving with the Wailuku Criminal Investigation Division. Pladera began his career with the Kauai Police Department before transferring to the MPD in August of 1994.  He was assigned to the […]

By Wendy Osher Maui Police Chief Gary Yabuta spoke with residents of Lahaina Wednesday night in latest of a series of Town Hall meetings, which has so far drawn the strongest showing with more than 30 people in attendance. “I can show statistics that the crime is dropping; I can show them all the good […]

The Maui Police Department will be celebrating National Police Week from May 11 through 15, 2009. A ceremony honoring five officers and U.S. National Park Ranger killed in the line of duty will be held at the Wailuku Police Station on Monday, May 11, 2009, at 9:00 a.m. (View highlights from the 2008 Police Week […]

Rep. Joe Bertram III of Maui is suggesting trimming budgets for two Police Department programs. In a letter drafted on April 17th, 2009, Bertram suggested that the department discontinue funding for the Marijuana Eradication Task Force Program saying it infringes on the privacy of medical marijuana patients and creates a disturbance of the peace with […]