Final two arrested in credit card fraud case 08-04-14

Hawaiʻi Police Department
Criminal Investigations Section, Area II
Lieutenant Gerald Wike
Phone: 326-4646, Ext. 266
Report No. C14019393

Media Release (update No. 5)

Hawaiʻi Island police have located the remaining two persons wanted for fraudulent use of a credit card in Kona.

Luke Kaniaupio, 21, of Kailua-Kona and Leilani Parent, 26, of Kailua-Kona were arrested in Hilo at 12:35 p.m. Sunday (August 3) in a stolen truck and taken to the Kona police cellblock while detectives from the Area II Criminal Investigations Section continue the investigation.

They were among the four people who had been sought for using a credit card after it was stolen from a car on Kuakini Highway on July 23.

The other two, 22-year-old Colvin Gaspar of Kailua-Kona and 39-year-old Theodore “Kahui” Casuga of Kailua-Kona, were arrested last week.


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