Search Kihei Police Blotter

The Kihei Police Blotter is the daily arrest and incident log kept by the Maui Police Department for the South Maui coast. Kihei runs about six miles along the shoreline and takes in the full Sugar Beach, Kamaole, and Wailea corridor. MPD patrols Kihei from its main base at 55 Mahalani Street in Wailuku, so every Kihei booking and every Kihei record request routes through the MPD Records Section. You can search the Kihei Police Blotter by mail, by fax, through the county portal, or in person at the Wailuku window.

MPD Patrol in Kihei

The Maui Police Department runs the Kihei patrol beat out of its main station at 55 Mahalani Street, Wailuku, HI 96793. The main line is (808) 244-6400. The records fax is (808) 244-6418. The records email is crs@mpd.net. Kihei is about 14 miles south of the Wailuku base, which puts every Kihei Police Blotter entry on the same desk as the Wailuku and Kahului entries.

Kihei sits between Maalaea Bay and the Wailea resort strip. The South Kihei Road strip holds the bulk of the town's restaurants, hotels, and short-term rentals. Most of the Kihei Police Blotter traffic ties to that mix. Common arrest types include DUI stops on South Kihei Road, theft from parked rental cars, tourist-related disorder, and controlled-substance cases in the Maalaea harbor zone.

Each arrest starts a line on the log. The line holds the arrest date, time, place, the officer, the charge, and the report number. It also holds the race, age, and sex of the person held. No home address is shown. No phone is shown. That redaction rule comes from HRS section 92F-13, the state's open-records carve-out for personal contact data on a Kihei Police Blotter file.

Kihei Police Blotter Request Paths

The MPD Records Section takes Kihei requests in four ways. First, through the Maui County Public Records Request Portal. Second, by fax at (808) 244-6418. Third, by mail to 55 Mahalani Street, Wailuku, HI 96793. Fourth, in person during business hours, Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Each request must include a phone number, an email, and a copy of a photo ID.

Processing runs within 10 business days for a simple pull. A complex pull may take longer under the UIPA. The free public access terminal at the Second Circuit Court, Hoapili Hale, 2145 Main Street, Wailuku, is a no-cost option for anyone who would rather read a Kihei Police Blotter court file on site.

To pull a Kihei arrest record, send:

• Full legal name of the person held
• Date of birth if known
• Rough date of arrest
• Case or report number if you have one
• Your name, phone, email, and a copy of your photo ID

The HCJDC main page above is the door to a state-level name search tied to any Kihei Police Blotter entry that led to a conviction. The HCJDC holds more than two million records across 458,000 offenders. Call (808) 587-3279 to book a print check or request a form.

UIPA and Kihei Access Rules

Kihei arrest records are public under the Uniform Information Practices Act, chapter 92F of the Hawaii Revised Statutes. Any record that ended in a conviction is open. A record that ended in a non-conviction or is still open is closed to the public under HRS section 846-9. Juvenile records are closed.

UIPA fees follow Hawaii Administrative Rules section 2-71-19. Search time runs $2.50 per 15 minutes. Review and segregation run $5 per 15 minutes. The first $30 of search, review, and segregation fees is waived for every request. If the Kihei Police Blotter request serves a public interest, the waiver jumps to the first $60. Copy fees track HRS chapter 846 and HRS section 92-21 rates.

An arrest warrant does not expire. It stays live until an officer serves it. A court may cancel a returned, unexecuted warrant or reissue it while the charge is pending. That means a Kihei Police Blotter hit tied to an old warrant can still close a case years later.

The OIP portal above holds chapter 92F in full. The Office of Information Practices at 250 South Hotel Street, Suite 107, Honolulu, (808) 586-1400, is the appeal route if MPD denies a Kihei request. OIP also runs an Attorney of the Day line that answers general UIPA questions at no cost, often within 24 hours.

Court and State Tools

eCrim is the online path for an adult conviction tied to a Kihei Police Blotter entry. A first-time user verifies ID with a $1.00 charge on a valid US credit card. A name search costs $5.00. A certified print costs $12. Data fields include last name, first name, aliases, sex, age, weight, height, charge summary, charge detail, disposition, disposition date, sentencing, appeal data, case number, and arrest report number.

The Hawaii State Judiciary eCourt Kokua portal ties each Kihei Police Blotter entry to its court case. Search by name, case number, or date. The Second Circuit Court sits at Hoapili Hale, 2145 Main Street, Wailuku. Misdemeanor cases start in District Court. Felony cases start in Circuit Court. Family Court handles juvenile files at (808) 954-8190 and those records are sealed from public view.

The Hawaii Department of Public Safety runs the Maui Community Correctional Center at 600 Waiale Drive, Wailuku. MCCC holds pretrial detainees and sentenced misdemeanants from Kihei and the rest of the county. Federal offenders are held by the federal Bureau of Prisons, not by DPS, so a federal case tied to a Kihei Police Blotter entry will not show on the state inmate search.

Kihei Crime Context

The Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance Division ships Maui County numbers to the FBI UCR file each year. Maui County had a total index crime count of 2,294 in 2020, down 29.3% from the year before. Most of that count falls into property cases, not violent ones. Larceny-theft ran 1,525.3. Burglary ran 273.4. Motor vehicle theft ran 259. Kihei's share of those numbers reflects the town's heavy tourist flow and long beach parking runs.

The UCR also showed 705 arrests for Maui County in 2020, down from 967 in 2019. Adult arrests ran 674; juvenile arrests ran 31. About 241 arrests tied to violent index crimes; 464 tied to property index crimes. Those numbers put the Kihei Police Blotter in context: most entries tie to theft, DUI, or controlled-substance cases, not to violent crime.

Crime in Hawaii, the annual report, pulls the Maui number together with the Honolulu, Hawaii, and Kauai numbers. The Research and Statistics Branch inside CPJA runs the NIBRS feed for the state, which is the raw source behind each Kihei Police Blotter year-end chart.

Nearby Maui Cities

Kihei sits in Maui County. Every Maui town shares the same Maui County Police Blotter chain, run from MPD headquarters in Wailuku. Pick a neighbor below.

Other Maui County towns include Lahaina, Makena, Makawao, Pukalani, Paia, Haiku, and Hana. All file through the Maui Police Department. Full county data sits on the Maui County page.