On Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at 9:30 a.m., 26-year-old Courtney Taylor Clenney, of an Austin, Texas address, was arrested without incident at an undisclosed location in Laupahoehoe. 

Members of the Hawai‘i Police Department assisted and stood by while Clenney was taken into custody by the United States Marshals Service. She was arrested on the strength of an arrest warrant issued by Miami-Dade County, Florida, for the offense of murder in the second-degree with a deadly weapon.

Clenney is being held at the Hawai’i Police Department‘s East Hawai’i Detention Center pending her initial court appearance in Hilo District Court, tentatively scheduled for Thursday, August 11, 2022. She will eventually be extradited to Florida.

All inquiries regarding the arrest of Clenney and/or the homicide investigation should be directed to the Office of the State Attorney, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, or the City of Miami Police Department.