Hawaii County police have arrested an extended furlough inmate missing since Sept. 28.

Shawn Kaawa was in police custody Saturday and will be returned to the Hawaii Community Correctional Center, according to a statement from the state Department of Public Safety.

Kaawa, serving time for possession of drug paraphernalia, failed to report back to the Hale Nani Reintegration Center. Inmates in the extended furlough program live and work outside the facility but must check in at various times throughout the month.

Kaawa, 34, was classified as community custody, the least restricted category. Escape in the second degree is expected to be added to his charges.

Pueo back in wild after rehab

A native Hawaiian owl, or pueo, was released back into the wild on Kauai on Friday after more than a month in rehabilitation, the state announced.

The owl was set free on private ranch land in west Kauai, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources said by email. The site is near where the young bird was rescued in March and taken to the Save our Shearwaters facility at the Kauai Humane Society.

The bird was spotted alongside the highway on March 22. Tracy Anderson of Save our Shearwaters speculated that the owl had been hit by a car.

“We treated her head and eye injuries and a fractured radius in her left wing,” Anderson said in a statement. “On April 11th she was flown to the Hawaii Wildlife Center on the Big Island so that she could continue her rehabilitation in their large flight aviary. She healed up nicely and was flying so the wildlife center sent her back to us.”

Owls are often attracted to roadsides by rats and mice, which in turn are attracted by the easy pickings of food scraps and rubbish discarded by people.