HPD Seeks Public Help Finding Jail Escapee

Authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating an inmate who escaped from Hale Nani Correctional Center in Panaewa Friday night.

Thirty-three-year-old Keahi C. Sale reportedly escaped at 10 p.m.

Sale is serving time for first-degree burglary, first-degree terroristic threatening, kidnapping, and second-degree sex assault. His next parole hearing was scheduled for March 2022. He is a community custody inmate. Community custody is the lowest classification level. 

Sale is described as 5 feet, 7 inches tall and 155 pounds. He has short dark hair and brown eyes. The 33-year-old was last seen wearing tan Shorts labeled “HCCC” and a white sweatshirt.

Sale is considered dangerous and the public should not approach him. Hawaiʻi Police are asking anyone with information on Sale’s whereabouts to call 911 immediately.

Hale Nani, HCCC’s reintegration program, is an open dorm-style building. Hale Nani offers offenders reintegration services and a work release program for sentenced inmates who will be released on the island of Hawaiʻi.