

Pelletier, his wife and twin teenagers already are packing up and moving their lives from Las Vegas to Maui. The commission is expected to take a final vote on Pelletier’s nomination on Wednesday, but that’s largely a formality.

5, when the Maui Police Commission unanimously selected him to be the county’s next police chief. “She’s always sort of known what the plan was, and has really always been a part of it,” Pelletier said.

In a recent interview, Pelletier recounted driving down South Kihei Road in 2004 and telling his wife that he wanted to end up on the Valley Isle. It’s where his birth mother lived for a time. Maui has always been a special place for John Pelletier, a captain in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
