HONOLULU — A Honolulu police lieutenant, an officer and a retired major pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges alleging they helped former Chief Louis Kealoha and his deputy prosecutor wife frame a man. Officer Minh Hung “Bobby” Nguyen and Lt. Derek Hahn are charged with conspiracy, obstruction and lying to a federal officer. U.S. prosecutors allege the defendants helped frame a relative of the Kealohas with the theft of their mailbox to discredit him in a financial dispute. The Kealohas and the officers in the unit staged the mailbox theft, edited surveillance video and falsely identified Katherine Kealoha’s uncle as the suspect, prosecutors said. On Wednesday, Susan Ballard was sworn-in as the department’s 11th chief and first woman chief.

Source: National Post November 01, 2017 20:15 UTC