Former Kauai police clerk charged with computer fraud, theft

A Kauai grand jury has indicted a former clerk of the Kauai Police Department on charges of computer fraud and theft involving alleged misconduct of cash collected on behalf of the condition.

The grand jury returned an indictment towards Mikalynn Hiranaka, charging her with very first-degree computer system fraud and initially-diploma theft. Hiranaka was used as a clerk in the police department’s Information Division at the time of the alleged criminal offense.

Hiranaka surrendered to regulation enforcement May possibly 12 and was introduced right after publishing a $10,000 bail bond. She is scheduled to seem at her arraignment at Kauai Circuit Courtroom on May perhaps 24.

The indictment alleged Hiranaka utilized a pc “with the intent to commit theft of much more than $20,000 really worth of property” from the Hawaii Felony Justice Information Heart, Hawaii Section of Attorney Common by building and publishing counter provider reports to the police department from March 2017 through Oct 2019.

The courtroom doc also alleged Hiranaka” deliberately received or exerted unauthorized regulate about the property” of the justice knowledge heart in the variety of charges collected on behalf of the info center in excess of $20,000.

Very first-degree laptop or computer fraud is a course A felony punishable by up to 20 a long time in prison and a fantastic of up to $50,000, if convicted. Very first-degree theft is a class B felony punishable by up to 10 decades in prison and a high-quality of up to $25,000.

The Department of the Attorney General’s Investigations Division coordinated with the Kauai Law enforcement Department on the investigation.