The drug case involving a now-former Honolulu police officer involves cocaine, marijuana and three types of prescription drugs, according to an indictment an Oahu grand jury returned Wednesday.
The indictment charges Alan Ahn, 54, with marijuana possession and multiple counts of cocaine promotion. It also charges Ahn with promoting hydrocodone, fentanyl and alprazolam, and with possessing drug paraphernalia.
Hydrocodone and fentanyl are prescription painkillers. Alprazolam is an anti-anxiety drug.
Ahn was a 10-year veteran of the Honolulu Police Department assigned to HPD’s Traffic Division.
An HPD spokeswoman said that at the time of his arrest on Aug. 13, Ahn was on restricted duty while the department investigated him over domestic abuse. The spokeswoman said that as of last week, Ahn is no longer employed by HPD.
The indictment also charges Ahn’s girlfriend, Tiffany Masunaga, 28, with the same offenses as Ahn plus an additional charge of knowingly distributing or possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine within 750 feet of a school, public park or public housing complex.
Police arrested Ahn and Masunaga at their residence on Waiola Street.
The McCully Recreation Center is right in the middle of the roughly half-mile length of Waiola Street. Lunalilo Elementary School is at the corner of Citron and Pumehana streets, one block from the recreation center. On either end of Waiola are Washington Intermediate School and Honolulu Stadium Park.
Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha told a state judge Wednesday that undercover police officers bought drugs at the Waiola Street residence on Aug. 12.
The indictment suggests that the officers purchased the drugs from Masunaga.
Kealoha told Circuit Judge Dexter Del Rosario that police executed a search warrant at the residence on Aug. 13 and seized both illicit and prescription drugs.
Ahn and Masunaga each posted $40,000 bail at Honolulu District Court following their arrest.
Del Rosario confirmed their bail amounts and ordered the bail transferred to Circuit Court.
