(AP) — A U.S. judge is allowing a former Honolulu police chief to visit with family and friends in Washington state before he begins serving a seven-year prison sentence in Oregon. Louis Kealoha and his former high-ranking Honolulu prosecutor wife were sentenced in November for using his position as chief to frame a relative for a crime he didn’t commit in Hawaiʻi’s biggest corruption case. In March, the judge delayed Kealoha’s surrender date to allow him time to get vaccinated against COVID-19. His lawyer says Kealoha received his second shot of the Pfizer vaccine about two weeks ago.

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