Comments on: Locals Busted for Scamming Folks at the Beach

By: karyn

karyn — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:47:38 +0000

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.

By: karyn

karyn — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:38:50 +0000

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!!!!!!

By: John

John — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:50:38 +0000

These two probably aren’t who I wanted to hang out with durring my time on the big isl.

By: kavika

kavika — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:42:27 +0000

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.

By: Larry O'Brien

Larry O'Brien — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:08:42 +0000

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.