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Media Release:
In response to citizen complaints about illegal kayak vendors at Napoopoo Pier, officers from the Hawai’i Police Department Vice Section, Community Policing Office and Special Enforcement Unit and officers from the State Department of Land and Natural Resources conducted a sting operation Monday morning (January 11).
As a result of the sting, police arrested 49-year-old Herman Santiago of Kealakekua and charged him with theft, pedestrian soliciting business and commercial use of a county street. His bail was set at $1,000.
Police also arrested 26-year-old Kapahukula Voorhees of Kealakekua on a bench warrant for contempt of court and for promoting a detrimental drug. Officers recovered two grams of dried, processed marijuana in connection with his arrest and a second case that is still under investigation. Voorhees’ bail was set at $550.
Both men are being held at the Kona police cellblock.
Police initiated a second case of promoting a detrimental drug against a 46-year-old Kealakekua woman, who was not arrested. Detectives from the Area II Vice Section are continuing that investigation.
The Department of Land and Natural Resources seized two kayaks and police issued several additional citations for regulatory and parking violations.
Filed under: Announcements, Big Island, Idiots, Legal, Tourism | Tagged: Kayak Scam
also scamming is way off.. i was born and raised in napoopoo.before these people started doing this down there ,there was a LOT of rental cars being broken into, lots of hard drugs,LOTS of theft, burgalry,just not a good thing.. with them down there all of that has stopped…everyone should look back at those times, let alone those police blogs!!!!!!!they accually try to tell people with kayaks even about the waters down there the rules and laws of the dolphins and kealakekua bay in general.
well it just really upsets me the way news and police together can turn a little into alot.. fyi that is my husband (kapahukula ) also a father of three beautiful girls that i know he would just about do anything for… for one the pot was in a black fanny pack found in the back bed of his pick up truck that was not his, and that he did not know that is was even there.also after he had gone with police officers to the station.what was his falt was he had a contempt of court .very true!what really gets me is i can sit at one of these other beaches like magic sands in kailua, kona and see several drug transactions go on like meth ,or crack.and most of them to teenagers that look as young as my neice. very sad!but you dont hear about the police doing anything about the real problems in our community!!!!!!
These two probably aren’t who I wanted to hang out with durring my time on the big isl.
Well Larry, the reason is that WE MUST HAVE REGULATION! See, these guys were able to make at least a few bucks tax free, but now we as tax payers get to pay for them being locked up and ran through the justice system. Great system isn’t it? I especially like how they tried to tie drugs to it so it sounded worse than it really was. Just an FYI, and I know I’m not alone in that I specifically search out and rent from guys like this because I’m not about to pay some jacked up ridiculous prices to some shop that is trying to cover their incredible rent overhead.
The illegal kayak rentals at Napoopoo have been going for years and will continue to go on (I’d bet they’ll be in operation this weekend). Frankly, I don’t understand what the problem is — it seems to me that it’s a couple of locals making a living. I don’t think they’re “scamming” anyone.
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