Police Seek Puna Couple Wanted in Connection With Assault

Big Island police are asking the public for help with locating a Puna couple sought for questioning in connection with an assault in March.

The Hawaiʻi Police Department reports that 32-year-old Harley Jane Kanani Gonsalves, also known as Harley Parks, of Kea‘au is wanted for an active arrest warrant stemming from the assault, which occurred in Hawaiian Paradise Park. She is described as 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighing 140 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.

Police are also looking for 39-year-old Jaewin Gonsalves of Kea‘au in connection with the same assault case, as well as for several unrelated theft cases. He is described as 6 feet tall, weighing 215 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.

The couple is known to frequent the Hilo and Puna areas.

Anyone with information about the couple’s whereabouts is asked to call the police department’s nonemergency line at 808-935-3311, or contact Detective Jeremy Kubojiri with HPD’s Area I Criminal Investigation Section at 808-961-2378 or via email at Jeremy.Kubojiri@hawaiicounty.gov.

Those who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 808-961-8300.