So I didnt read the article til now, this all happened on the Big Island which is still pretty wild west once you get outside the cities and towns, it is a mix of old school Hawaiians, a lot of burnt out Haight Ashbury Hippies lost in time, a dash of super duper Nudist Homos making daisy chains of buttfucking in the remote wilderness.
The majority of the island is only barely 'on the grid' a lot of it is not al all. You can literally live out in the middle of nowhere without close neighbors and be pretty fucking lawless and no one is around to complain. There is a massive amount of drugs there, it used to be an almost 100% illegal weed growing based economy that made for tons of hard drugs and guns getting added to the mix.
So going into town for karaoke, meeting a movie star and bringing him home to plow your wife while you watch and do rails of blow or heroin off his bisexual cock is totally probable. The law there has to pick their battles, there are some places they will not go into because its too remote and too many wanted felons with nothing to loose are living in the bushes. But Big Island cops are large Polynesian men built like world class Triathletes. You try and run from them they will chase and catch you and if nobody is around maybe even end you so they dont have to haul your resisting ass back to their 4x4. That ding dong is pretty lucky he didnt end up dead and left on a lava field with rocks stacked on his corpse for an unmarked grave.
They never did find the body of Tea Leoni's cousin, he went missing in the jungle behind my house in 95 and I am in a pretty civilized area of Oahu. I still hope one day to run across his remains when I am fucking around back in that valley and collect the $100K reward.