A Hawaiian teenager is facing up to 10 years in prison after he and pal stole a woman’s pet pig and slaughtered it to cheat their way into a $1,000 hunting contest prize.

Jayden Jarnesky-Magana, 19, and accomplice Krys Ryan Saito-Carino, 20, allegedly snatched “Eddie” from Sarah Haynes’ Maui farm last May and then filmed their dogs viciously attacking the poor creature in a sham hunting video they posted on social media.

They proceeded to kill and gut Eddie and entered him at the last minute in a local “biggest pig” hunting contest — but the hunters there became suspicious after noting that the pig had been neutered and was much heavier than the typical wild pigs entered into the contest.

“Nobody believed him,” Haynes told KHON2.

Eddie was even too heavy for the two men to carry from their truck to the weigh-scale, Haynes said, but they ended up walking away with the $1,000 prize money for the biggest pig hunted.

Jarnesky-Magana and Saito-Carino were both arrested and charged in August with animal cruelty later last year following a police investigation, Maui Now reported.

In January Jarnesky-Magana changed his plea from not guilty to no contest and is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday on felony counts of first-degree animal cruelty and livestock theft — which each carry a five-year max sentence. 

Saito-Carino, is expected to also change his plea to no contest on Wednesday, according to KOHN2.

Haynes has organized a rally outside of the Wailuku courthouse to raise awareness about animal cruelty.

“Eddie was super friendly,” Haynes said. “Little kids could hug him, you know, he’d sit. You could get him to bark like a dog. I mean, he was just the most adorable, sweet, gentle soul.”

She had adopted the pig several years ago and brought him to her Kitty Charm Farm in Haiku after he was found running around Kihei with scars and rope burns, presumably because he was used to train hunting dogs.

“And you know, his life started with cruelty, and I was determined to make that go away for life. And, unfortunately it ended the same way it started, you know, with hunting dogs.”

“I don’t want to ruin anybody’s life and I don’t think there’s any possibility of them getting the 10 years, but what I would like to see, I would like to see a punishment,” he added.

“This wasn’t an innocent mistake, this wasn’t confusion about the law. This was a planned attack on my pet,” she added.

(BIVN) – The ongoing eruption at the summit of Kīlauea remains paused as of Tuesday morning, and scientists expect the next episode of lava activity to begin at any moment. 

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported Monday night that if prior patterns of inflation hold, Episode 18 is likely to start between now and late Wednesday. 

Overnight, both the north and south vents within Halemaʻumaʻu crater were degassing and displaying a strong glow. 

The USGS HVO posted this analysis on Monday:

The current eruption has been characterized by episodic fountaining not seen in any of the other Halemaʻumaʻu eruptions since 2020. Fountains and lava flows have erupted from two vents that we refer to as the north vent and south vent. Each of the previous 16 fountaining episodes lasted from a few hours to over a week and has been accompanied by strong deflation of the summit region. Pauses between the fountaining episodes have been marked by an immediate change from deflation to inflation as the magma chamber recharges and repressurizes.

USGS: “This reference map depicts the Kīlauea summit eruption within Halema‘uma‘u crater that began on December 23, 2024. As of this posting on April 9, the eruption has had seventeen episodes, with the most recent concluding earlier this morning. However, most of the map data included here were collected during a Hawaiian Volcano Observatory helicopter overflight on April 2, immediately following episode 16; for this reason, the provided statistics only reflect the first sixteen episodes of the eruption. Additionally, the collected data were insufficient to calculate the total lava volume for the eruption at that time.”

Analysis of inflationary tilt patterns prior to the onset of each fountaining episode allows a time window of probability for the onset of new episodes to be estimated. These are calculated using both minimum inflation necessary to start a new eruption and the rate of inflation fit to data derived from past eruptive episodes. The onset of episode 17 occurred earlier than forecasted, as the fountaining began prior to the tilt rebounding to the expected threshold that had been previously associated with episode onsets. If the eruption returns to pre-episode 17 inflation behavior, data suggest episode 18 is likely to start as early as today or as late as Wednesday of this week, within the 0-3 days, with Tuesday most likely. This window may be adjusted if inflation rates change significantly. Based upon prior cycles of fountaining and deflation, episode 18 fountaining is likely to be less than 24 hours long.

The USGS Volcano Alert Level for Kīlauea is WATCH.

The actor Dwayne Johnson, who began his career as wrestler The Rock, is to co-author a nonfiction book about a Hawaii crime syndicate in the 1960s and 1970s.

Writing on Instagram, Johnson said he was “super grateful to co-author my next project (a nonfiction book) with award-winning investigative journalist, @NickBilton.

“Nick and I have worked on this for months now, with many more months of work ahead of us – this has already been such an unbelievable, inspiring and eye-opening experience.”

Crown, the Penguin House imprint, has acquired rights to the as yet untitled book, which will “serve as an inspiration” for a film directed by Martin Scorsese, which is being scripted by Bilton and Johnson. Johnson will co-star with his Jungle Cruise collaborator Emily Blunt, as well as Leonardo DiCaprio.

The book will chronicle “the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of Hawaii’s most notorious crime syndicate, The Company, led by Wilford “Nappy” Pulawa, the first and only Hawaiian mob boss in history”.

As well as echoing the themes of some of Scorsese’s best-known gangster films, the story appears to also share common ground with his most recent fictional feature, Killers of the Flower Moon, about the plight of the Osage people in 1920s America.

The new book, says a statement, “aims to shed light not only on this chapter of American history but on Hawaii’s systematic theft by outsiders through the lens of this unique era.”

Said Johnson: “This isn’t just a gangster story – it’s about power, identity, and what was taken from the Hawaiian people. What drew me to this project wasn’t just the action and the intensity. My own family lived through parts of this era, and I’ve seen first-hand the complicated legacy it left behind. Telling this story is a way to honour our Polynesian culture, and honour where we come from and share the untold history of what really happened in paradise.

“My formative years were spent growing up in Honolulu, Hawai’i and this story is very personal – the more exhaustive research we do and people we speak to – the more I shake my head at how wildly and profoundly connected we all were. And still are.”

Johnson made his nonfiction debut with a 2000 memoir, The Rock Says … which chronicles his pre-Hollywood life as well as sharing extensive life lessons and mottoes.

Now 52, Johnson is one of the most financially successful film stars of all time thanks to his work on the Fast & Furious franchise and Disney’s Moana animations.

His next film project is The Smashing Machine, an A24 sports biopic from Uncut Gems’ Benny Safdie in which he plays MMA fighter Mark Kerr, with Blunt playing his wife, Dawn.