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The next edition of the Crime Stoppers television program "Hawaii Island's Most Wanted" will feature a Puna man wanted for two assaults at a bar, a Kona man who failed to appear in court for a meth trafficking case and a missing Hilo man.

The new episode starts airing Friday, February 22.

In it, police ask for the public's help in locating 26-year-old Joshua Labrador in connection with two assaults at a bar on Makaala Street on the of morning of January 27th. 

"Hawaii Island's Most Wanted" also seeks help in locating a man wanted on a 200-thousand-dollar bench warrant for contempt of court. Ramon Villanueva, also known as Ramon Martinez Lopez, also known as Ramon Villanueva-Martinez, failed to appear in court on May 29th, 2007, for a meth trafficking case.

In addition to the two wanted men, the TV program asks for help in finding Willie Dennis Eriksson of Hilo, who was reported missing on November 22, 2007. Eriksson was last seen during the evening hours of November 7 at a general store in the Mountain View area of Puna.

The program's host, Assistant Chief Henry Tavares, asks anyone with information about any of the wanted or missing persons to call the police department's non-emergency number at 935-3311, or Crime Stoppers at 961-8300 in Hilo and 329-8181 in Kona. All Crime Stoppers calls are kept confidential. Crime Stoppers does not tape record phone calls or subscribe to caller ID.

"Hawaii Island's Most Wanted" is a project of Crime Stoppers Hilo, Inc., which is a partnership of the business community, the media and the police. It was inspired by the national TV show, "America's Most Wanted."

The program airs on Oceanic Time Warner's public access Channel 54 on Sundays at 5 p.m. and Fridays at 5:30 p.m. It also airs intermittently on Channel 53.

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