Police have arrested a total of six people in connection with a deadly explosion of illegal fireworks in a Honolulu ...

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM An investigator examines the scene of the deadly fireworks explosion on Keaka Drive in Aiiamanu on Jan. 1. JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM An ...

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM HPD Lt. Deena Thoemmes provided new information Thursday regarding the arrests and ongoing investigation of the Jan. 1 fireworks explosion in Aliamanu that ...

In addition to six arrests, authorities recovered 500 pounds of unused illegal fireworks from the carport and vehicles.

In 2022, Fernandez had nearly 95 pounds (43 kilograms) of aerial fireworks mailed to "the very correctional facility that he ...

Two GoFundMe pages named Kevin Vallesteros as the man who died on Jan. 28 while being treated in Phoenix for burns from a ...

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM Debris is seen, on Jan. 1, in the aftermath of an accidental fireworks explosion at a house on Keaka Drive in Aliamanu. A 29-year-old man injured Jan. 1 when ...

HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT Gilchrist Fernandez, 35. Fernandez pleaded guilty today to two fireworks offenses after he had nearly 95 pounds of illegal aerials shipped to the Oahu Community ...

To prevent tragedies like the New Year’s Aliamanu fireworks explosion that killed four people and injured dozens, city and ...

This story was written by Jennifer Sinco Kelleher A former guard had illegal aerial fireworks mailed to Hawaiʻi’s largest ...