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A Honolulu police patrol car is parked outside an apartment building where human remains were found in the city’s Waikiki neighborhood, April 12, 2017.
(Associated Press)
A police major was picked Wednesday as the first woman to lead the Honolulu Police Department – a force trying to regain the public’s trust following corruption allegations against the previous chief and his associates.
Maj. Susan Ballard was selected by the police commission to replace Louis Kealoha, who retired in the wake of accusations of conspiring to frame a man last December. A federal grand jury indicted Kealoha last week — along with his wife Katherine, who was a deputy city prosecutor, and four former and current police officers.
The Kealohas allegedly organized the theft of their home mailbox to discredit his wife’s uncle in a family financial dispute. The couple has…
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