(AP) — A retired Honolulu police chief convicted of conspiracy in a tangled corruption case doesn’t have to report to prison until June so that he can get vaccinated against COVID-19. Louis Kealoha was scheduled to surrender next month to begin serving a seven-year prison term. A U.S. judge extended the date to June 1 after Kealoha’s lawyer said the ex-chief wants to be vaccinated before going to a correctional institution in Oregon. Kealoha is 60 years old and not yet eligible for a vaccine in Hawaiʻi. Kealoha and his now-estranged wife, a former high-ranking Honolulu prosecutor, were sentenced for using his position to frame a relative.

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