Acting on a tip, federal agents and Honolulu police arrested fugitive Jennifer McTigue at a home in Kaimuki on Saturday night.
The FBI and U.S. Marshal Service had asked for the public’s help in finding McTigue, who is scheduled to go to trial next week in a $3 million real estate fraud case.
FBI Special Agent Tom Simon said FBI agents, U.S. marshals and Honolulu police officers arrested McTigue at about 11 p.m. at the home of a friend on Pukalani Place in Kaimuki. She is in custody at the Federal Detention Center near Honolulu Airport, pending a court appearance Monday.
McTigue, 48, failed to show up for a meeting with her pretrial services officer, and the FBI issued a news release Tuesday asking for anyone with information on her location to contact authorities.
McTigue — formerly Jennifer Lowe — grew up in East Honolulu and was last seen near Kahala Mall on June 30.
In the news release, Simon said McTigue has ties with the Sovereign Citizen Movement, whose members are described by the FBI as "anti-government extremists."
In an interview Tuesday, Simon described the Sovereign Citizens Movement as "a loosely knit network of people who believe the laws of the U.S. do not apply to them. It has nothing to do with Hawaiian sovereignty."
A federal grand jury indicted McTigue last year on criminal charges relating to an alleged $3 million scheme to defraud new homeowners, title companies and banks in a complex real estate scheme.
She had been out on bond awaiting a federal trial scheduled for July 20.
HPD takes over after body is recovered
The case of a body that was recovered by a Honolulu Fire Department crew along the upper slopes of Kuliouou Ridge Trail on Saturday night has been turned over to Honolulu police.
It’s not clear whether the body was that of a man or woman.
HFD Capt. Kevin Mokulehua said the crew took two hours to get to the body on the wet trail.
After packaging and securing the body at about 9:23 p.m., the crew took two hours to hike back down the trail, Mokulehua said. The case was then turned over to the Honolulu Police Department, he said.
The body was found early Saturday evening by Boy Scouts camping in the area.
Driver allegedly rams ranger’s vehicle
A woman was arrested Sunday on Mauna Kea after she allegedly rammed her car into a state ranger’s vehicle.
The woman allegedly drove up to a ranger and two sheriffs at 2:30 a.m. and argued with them for not allowing her to ascend the mountain, according to a statement from the state attorney general’s office.
She then "advanced her car" into the ranger’s vehicle, causing minor damage, the statement said. No one was injured. She was arrested on suspicion of criminal property damage.
The ranger was with the Office of Mauna Kea Management.
Mauna Kea has been the scene of recent protests against the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope.
