HONOLULU (AP) ‐ A federal grand jury indictment unsealed Tuesday accuses a former Honolulu city prosecutor of dealing opioids with her physician brother and using her position to cover up their crimes.Katherine Kealoha, the wife of now-retired Honolulu police chief Louis Kealoha, steered law enforcement away from investigating her brother, Dr. Rudolph Puana, after police told her that he was buying cocaine, according to the indictment.
The siblings and unnamed co-conspirators were charged with distributing oxycodone, fentanyl and Xanax. Messages left for their lawyers were not immediately returned.
Puana was arrested amid a growing federal corruption investigation that has resulted in indictments against the Kealohas and current and former officers.
They are scheduled to go to trial next month after being accused of framing Katherine Kealoha’s uncle for the theft of the couple’s home mailbox to discredit him in a family financial dispute.