Tuesday, January 22, 2013

DUH, HUH, WAHHHHH ! ! ! !

JAMES J. MATEAKI

Mateaki has been a patrol officer for 8 1/2 years and was described by Maui Police Chief Thomas Phillips as ‘not a major player’ in the alleged conspiracy.”

“James Mateaki, a Maui Police Department patrol officer with about eight and half years of service, was was arrested and faces a mandatory 10-year prison term if convicted.”

“Mateaki, 29, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Feb. 3 to conspiring with close friend Polotani Latu and others to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.”

“Mateaki also admitted to obtaining confidential data from the officers involved in investigations into Latu's drug organization and providing it to Latu to further his drug activities.”


“He also is not accused of providing information on police activities surrounding the drug ring investigation.”


James Mateaki, 29, gets three
years and 10 months for his
role in a plan to sell "ice"






Richard Wayne Raquino

“A U.S. District judge sentenced a former Honolulu Police Department officer to four months in prison after he made false statements to federal investigators.

"Raquino admitted lying to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) when he denied disclosing the identity of an undercover Honolulu police officer and the description of an undercover police vehicle and providing information and techniques on how to identify and evade police surveillance to a known drug dealer. The FBI had recorded conversations between Raquino and the drug dealer in which Raquino discussed those things along with other sensitive law enforcement information."

"Inciong said he has never heard of anything like this in all his years as a federal prosecutor here and on the mainland."


flair.wittysparks.com/.../police-and-fbi-bust-heroin-operation-in-may...Cached
 Oct 10, 2012 Former HPD officer sentenced for lying to FBI ... Former Honolulu Police Department Officer Richard Wayne Raquino, 41, of Ewa Beach, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi to four ... A criminologist from the University of the Pacific said Thursday this will be a slow process.


Lying to the FBI about revealing names and identity of undercover officers

Describing vehicles of officers

Giving a drug dealer information and techniques for identifying and eluding police surveillance

Told her how to prevent law enforcement from seizing drugs and how to avoid positive drug test results

Offered to check license plates of cars at her home, store drugs at his home, to check on her and similar cases

Promised the drug dealer he’d ward her of a DEA investigation



www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/Former...sentenced.../-/index.htmlCached
 Jan 10, 2013 Former Honolulu Police Department Officer Richard Wayne Raquino, 41, of Ewa Beach, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Leslie ...