Crime Statistics

Over the 20 year period between 2000 and 2020, the annual number of permits processed in Maui County increased 261.4 percent, the number of firearms annually registered soared 409.1 percent, and the tally of firearms annually imported was up 466 percent. Record high tallies of firearms registered and imported were reported for 2020.

The percentage of burglary cases neither increased nor decreased from the week before when 10 incidents were also reported. Vehicle thefts decreased 33 percent from the week before when six incidents were reported. Vehicle break-ins increased 43 percent from the week before when seven incidents were reported.

Maui police arrested five individuals for impaired driving during a St. Patrick’s Day enforcement effort held on Wednesday, March 17, 2021.

By Wendy Osher Maui Police Chief Tivoli Faaumu announced his planned retirement, set to take effect on May 1, 2021. Faaumu is a 36 year veteran of the department, starting out at the receiving desk in 1985. He was named police chief in 2014, serving six and a half years at the helm. Department spokesperson […]

The Maui Police Department is currently investigating a complaint of a suspicious male seen in the Olinda Forest area of the Waihou Spring Trail in Makawao. Police received a tip from a concerned citizen who had also observed a suspicious male in camouflage clothing in the area of the Pine Forest Trail in Makawao a couple of weeks before the Waihou Spring Trail incident. It is unknown if the male in each incident is the same person.

The woman was processed and released without incident after volunteering to leave Maui and fly back to Ohio.

Maui police responded to 10 burglaries, six vehicle thefts and seven vehicle break-ins in Maui County over a seven day period from March 7 – 13, 2021.

The Maui Police Department is requesting the public’s help in locating 28 year old Jacob Niles. Maui Crime Stoppers reports that Niles was last seen approximately three years ago by his family in California, when he flew to Kauaʻi and then, presumably to Maui.

Seven men were arrested on Maui during the “Operation Keiki Shield 7” law enforcement operation carried out between Friday, March 12 and Sunday March 14.

To help eliminate impaired driving from Maui’s roadways, the public can also expect to see increased intoxication checkpoints set at various locations throughout Maui County every weekend.

Maui police responded to seven burglaries, nine vehicle thefts and six vehicle break-ins in Maui County over a seven day period from Feb. 28 – March 6, 2021.

A New York man was arrested on Maui on Tuesday for alleged violation of rules and orders relating to travel quarantine.

An Idaho woman is the latest individual to be arrested on Maui for alleged violation of rules and orders related to travel quarantine.

A California woman was arrested on Maui for alleged violation of rules and orders related to travel quarantine on Wednesday, March 3, 2021.

Maui police responded to 11 burglaries, four vehicle thefts and 10 vehicle break-ins in Maui County over a seven day period from Feb. 21-27, 2021.

An Oʻahu man was arrested on Maui for allegedly violating rules and orders related to travel quarantine.

The Maui Police Department would like to remind the public if you receive emails, phone calls, or texts from business or government entities asking you to purchase gift cards, please do not do so.

Maui police responded to one burglary, nine vehicle thefts and five vehicle break-ins in Maui County over a seven day period from Feb. 14-20, 2021.

A 25-year-old man was arrested on first degree attempted murder, assault of an officer and resisting an order to stop his vehicle following a run-in with police that led to officers opening fire.

Maui police responded to seven burglaries, 14 vehicle thefts and eight vehicle break-ins in Maui County over a seven day period from Feb. 7 – 13, 2021.