Former Kauai Police Department Lt. Karen Kapua pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court this afternoon to stealing $25,000 from the department.
Kapua, 53, faces a maximum 10-year prison term at sentencing in October.
As part of her plea deal, a federal prosecutor has agreed to dismiss two other charges accusing Kapua of stealing another $50,000 from KPD. Kapua has repaid the department $75,000.
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Should refund all traffic tickets she ever wrote up, release all prisoners she helped convict, and invalidate retirement pay she worked so hard for. Crime should not pay. What a wart on all Hawaiians who struggle to gain respectability.
We don’t know how she does her job…. but what does she need the money for? Drugs?
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Those two other charges should never have been dropped. She should have to forfeit her retirement to make full restitution. Only after all ill-gotten funds are paid in full should she be able to resume receiving her pension AFTER release from prison. Dumb, greedy broad.
She did, she was terminated, no retirement. She paid the government back, it was federal grant money she took.
“Book ’em Danno!”
The stunning news is that a cop pleaded guilty.
She did the right thing, pleaded. Most people, cops included, don’t do the right thing when you know you are wrong. Problem with our society today.
She faces a maximum 10-year prison term at sentencing in October? Well, as far as this forum and the people herein, she already paid some dues. Character assassination at its best!
She’s free to roam the streets again. Just because she paid back the money she should be let go that easy. That’s why the community loses faith in our government.