HONOLULU (AP) - A Honolulu police sergeant says he was trying to help a childhood friend when he gave her information from a confidential database.
Sgt. Daniel Sellers was sentenced to a year of probation Monday for disclosing confidential information to Katherine Kealoha, a former deputy city prosecutor who is fighting corruption-related charges along with her husband, former police chief Louis Kealoha. They’re accused of framing Katherine Kealoha’s uncle for theft of their home mailbox.
Sellers says he regrets looking up information about the uncle’s vehicles and passing it along to Kealoha.
Sellers was indicted with the Kealohas in 2017. Sellers is cooperating with federal investigators and accepted a plea deal. In exchange for pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disclosing confidential information, prosecutors agree to drop the other charges.
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