16-year-old runs away again same day she’s located after previously reported as runaway

The Hawai‘i Police Department is asking the public for help with locating 16-year-old Cherish Ahulau-Kaleo, who was reported as a runaway.

Ahulau-Kaleo was previously reported as a runaway and located Feb. 23 in Puna in good health. However, she ran away again the same day.

She was last seen at 1 p.m. Feb. 23 in the Pāhoa area dressed in a white Nirvana T-shirt, black camouflage hoodie and gray sweatpants. Ahulau-Kaleo is known to frequent the Hilo and Puna areas.

She is 5-foot-2, 100 pounds, with long brown hair and brown eyes. She has scars on her legs, arms and hands.

Anyone with information about Ahulau-Kaleo’s whereabouts is asked to call the Police Department’s non-emergency line at 808-935-3311 or contact Officer Corey Kaneko at 808-961-8843 or via email at corey.kaneko@hawaiicounty.gov.