12/08/22 – THREE FOREIGN NATIONALS CITED AFTER ENTERING MAUNA LOA CLOSED AREA

Posted on Dec 8, 2022 in DOCARE, News Releases, slider JOSH B. GREEN, M.D. GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON For Immediate Release:  December 8, 2022 THREE FOREIGN NATIONALS CITED AFTER ENTERING MAUNA LOA CLOSED AREA To view video please click on photo or view at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/934ctyx5y8qdvr7/AACTXPlEraSCv1smoQINpEa0a?dl=0’  (HILO) – Three men from Kazakhstan were cited on Wednesday after being observed by three different law enforcement agencies, in the closed area of the Mauna Loa Forest Reserve on Hawai‘i Island. The area was closed shortly after the current eruption of Mauna Loa to protect people from risk of injury or worse. An officer from the DLNR Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE), was notified by Dept. of the Army Police assigned to U.S. Army Garrison Pōhakuloa Training Area that he’d observed three people walking in the closed and active lava flow area off Daniel K. Inouye Highway (saddle road). Subsequently, an officer from the Hawai‘i Police Dept. contacted the trio as they walked back to their car in the public viewing area. When the DOCARE officer arrived on scene he cited them for entering a closed area under Hawai‘i Administrative Rules (HAR) 13-104-7.5 The three men cited are: 31-year-old Adibayev
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