In 2022, Fernandez had nearly 95 pounds (43 kilograms) of aerial fireworks mailed to "the very correctional facility that he had a duty to secure,” Lopez said. The case against Fernandez isn't linked to a recent fireworks blast at a Honolulu home that killed five people, including a 3-year-old boy.

This story was written by Jennifer Sinco Kelleher A former guard had illegal aerial fireworks mailed to Hawaiʻi’s largest jail where he worked, the state attorney general said Wednesday. Gilchrist Fernandez,