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  • HAWAII POLICE DEPARTMENT
    Dolores Borja Valle’s body was found in a coffee field off Keopuka Mauka Road. His truck, a white 2014 Toyota Tacoma, was later recovered in Kau.
  • HAWAII POLICE DEPARTMENT
    Dolores Borja Valle’s body was found in a coffee field off Keopuka Mauka Road. His truck, a white 2014 Toyota Tacoma, was later recovered in Kau.

Hawaii County police are asking for the public’s help in finding the person who struck and killed a 69-year-old Holualoa man whose body was found Aug. 9 in a coffee field in Captain Cook.

Police on Friday identified the victim as Dolores Borja Valle.

An autopsy showed that he died from sharp and blunt force trauma to the head, and the manner of death was a homicide.

Valle’s body was found in a coffee field off Keopuka Mauka Road. His truck, a white 2014 Toyota Tacoma, was later recovered in Kau.

Police are continuing to investigate this case as a murder.

Anyone with information is asked to call the police non-emergency number at 935-3311 or contact Detective Walter Ah Mow at 326-4646, extension 238, or walter.ahmow@hawaiicounty.gov; or Detective David Matsushima at 326-4646, extension 228, or david.matsushima@hawaiicounty.gov

Anonymous tipsters may call CrimeStoppers at 961-8300. 

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