Legal News for Honlulu, Hawaii
United States of America v. Shota Yamamoto
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act (50 U.S.C. § 4819). Shota Yamamoto, 29, of Tokyo, Japan, conspired with another person to export firearm components and tactical accessories from the United States to Japan without the required licenses. Yamamoto intended to use those items to retrofit airsoft eq... More...
(01-28-2026 - HI)United States of America v. Douglas Mycko
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer Caroline Elliott represented the Defendant charged with making ans subscribing to a false tax return. Douglas Mycko, 61, of Kurtistown, Hawaii, admitted to filing false tax returns for calendar years 2016 through 2020 in which he underreported his business income, resulting in losses to the federal government in the amount of $244,121.00 and to the St... More...
(01-14-2026 - HI)United States of America v. Travis Kalani Hong-Ah Nee
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing and possessing with intent to distribute carfentanil, possessing with intent to distribute carfentanil, and possessing ammunition. Travis Kalani Hong-Ah Nee, 36, of Oahu, was pulled over by a Honolulu Police Officer and then fled at a high rate of speed, later collided with an unmarked police car and... More...
(01-14-2026 - HI)United States of America v. Robert Silva
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2251. Robert Silva, agte 52, of Waipahu, Hawaii, admitted that on multiple occasions in 2018 and 2019, he paid adults in the Philippines to sexually abuse children there during live internet video streams. While in Hawaii, Silva created recordings of thes... More...
(01-08-2026 - HI)United States of America v. Vernon Santiago
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon and an unlawful user of controlled substances. Vernon Santiago, 45, of Mountain View, Hawaii, has a prior federal felony conviction from 2005 for unlawfully possessing firearms and ammunition as an unlawful user of controlled substances, for which he was se... More...
(01-08-2026 - HI)United States of America v. Heidi Cafirma
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with filing false tax returns and wire fraud related to her fraudulent application for unemployment assistance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For tax years 2016 through 2020, Heidi Cafirma, 50, of Waipahu, Hawaii, filed false federal tax returns with the IRS for her and her spouse that underreported their business incom... More...
(12-22-2025 - HI)Seuga Aumua and Faaaloalo Aumua v. Hawaiian Airlines, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawaii, personal Injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on negligence theories.... More...
(12-19-2025 - HI)United States of America v. Lynden David Lightburn
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to distribute fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine, followed by 5 years of supervised release. From September 2020 to June 30, 2021, Lynden David Lightburn, a/k/a “Soulja,” age 42, of Los Angeles, California, supplied more than 6.6 kilograms of fentanyl, 6.4 kilograms of heroin, and 2.8 kilograms of... More...
(12-19-2025 - HI)State of Hawaii v. John Doe
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with terroristic threatening after he allegedly brandished the butt of a firearm at a 33-year-old woman and identified himself as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent. “If someone finds themselves in a similar situation, the safest response is to call 911 right away,” Lee said. “Try to remember key details ... More...
(11-28-2025 - HI)United States of America v. Marion Anthony Rogers
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cyberstalking. (a) Offenses.— (1) Travel or conduct of offender.— A person who travels in interstate or foreign commerce or enters or leaves Indian country or is present within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States with the intent to kill, injure, harass,... More...
(11-18-2025 - HI)George Hunter v. Bell Textron, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawaii, personal injury lawyers represent the Plaintiff who sued on a product liability theory.... More...
(11-18-2025 - HI)United States of America v. Brandon Inada
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of materials containing child porno. 18 U.S.C. 2252 provides in part: (a) Any person who— (1) knowingly transports or ships using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means including by computer or mails... More...
(10-29-2025 - HI)United States of America v. Robert Morris
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Shooting Federal Officer During Execution of Search Warrant and Sixteen-Hour Armed Standoff. Acting United States Attorney Ken Sorenson announced that Robert Morris, 49, of Honolulu, Hawaii, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint yesterday with assaulting a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous w... More...
(10-23-2025 - HI)United States of America v. Robert Morris
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Acting United States Attorney Ken Sorenson announced that Robert Morris, 49, of Honolulu, Hawaii, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint yesterday with assaulting a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon, using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and possessing a firearm and am... More...
(10-23-2025 - HI)United States of America v. Jeffrey L. Goss, aka Loran Gross
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r manufacture and possession with intent to distribute 100 or more marijuana plants, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B); two counts of felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1); and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, ... More...
(10-19-2025 - HI)Warren Yoshimoto, et al. v. Alaska Airlines, Inc.; Alaska Air Group, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawaii consumer law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued to stop the merger of Alaska Air and Hawaii Airlines. Plaintiffs, a group including airline passengers and former travel agents, seek to enjoin Alaska Airlines’s acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines. The district court dismissed Plaintiffs’ complaint without leave to amend for lack of standing, and it ... More...
(10-19-2025 - HI)The State of Hawai'i v. Craig Stephen MacDonald
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a felony. "The basic elements of procedural due process are notice and an opportunity to be heard at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner." Mauna Kea Anaina Hou v. Bd. of Land & Nat. Res., 136 Hawai‘i 376, 389, 363 P.3d 224, 237 (2015)... More...
(10-19-2025 - HI)United States of America v. Haitem Taylor Abid
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud by wire, radio or television in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, which provides: Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transm... More...
(10-19-2025 - HI)State of Hawai'i v. John Naki
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony abuse of a family member. The State of Hawaii claimed that defendant's two prior abuse of family or household member (Abuse) offenses, charged in a single complaint resulting in a single judgment of conviction, constituted one prior conviction rather than the two prior convictions required for felo... More...
(10-17-2025 - HI)United States of America v. Ryan Holden Baxter
Honlulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making interstate threats in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which provides: (c) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five y... More...
(10-16-2025 - HI)State of Hawaii v. Jane Doe
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree attempted murder. Honolulu police arrested an 18-year-old woman for allegedly stabbing a 13-year-old girl at Beretania Community Park.... More...
(10-09-2025 - HI)United States of America v. Robert Kinoshita
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. 21:841A=CD.F CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - SELL, DISTRIBUTE, OR DISPENSE, Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(l) and 841(b)(l)(A) (1)... More...
(10-08-2025 - HI)State of Hawaii v. Marquis Johnson
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with llegedly throwing acid on another man in Chinatown in Honolulu. Marquis Johnson, 34, turned himself in at Honolulu police headquarters and was held on suspicion of first-degree assault.... More...
(08-18-2025 - HI)United States of America v. Dwayne Yuen
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Oahu Basketball Coach Sentenced to 405 Month in Prison for Child Exploitation and Harassment Offenses Involving Ten Charged Victims ... More...
(08-15-2025 - HI)United States of America v. Jillian Pecika, aka Mango
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.... More...
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