A federal wiretap investigation that began more than four years ago resulted in guilty verdicts yesterday for five people — including a former Honolulu police officer — who were part of an extensive criminal network that helped set up and facilitate illegal cockfights and gambling on O'ahu's North Shore.

Following an eight-week trial before U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway, a federal jury found Douglas Gilman Sr., 79, his sons Douglas Gilman Jr., 56, and William Gilman, 50, guilty of conspiring to conduct an illegal gambling business involving cockfighting, dice games and card games in Waialua from 2003 to 2005.

Kevin Brunn, a 47-year-old former Honolulu police officer with 23 years of service who was on duty at the time but has since left the department, was convicted of conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement for tipping the Gilman family off to police raids.

Brunn also was convicted of conspiracy to extort property from the Gilmans and four counts of extortion for ordering the Gilmans to pay him for protection from the police.

Brunn's wife, Micha Terragna, 42, was convicted of conspiring to conduct an illegal gambling business, conspiracy to obstruct the enforcement of gambling laws and four counts of extorting money from the Gilmans.

"We are satisfied with the verdicts finding each defendant guilty as charged in this case," U.S. Attorney Ed Kubo said last night. "Yet, this case sadly serves as a reminder that wherever gambling exists, there will always be a dangerous temptation to corrupt our law enforcement agents who are sworn to uphold the law.

"We will continue to aggressively investigate and prosecute corruption wherever we find it."

Gilman Sr. and Gilman Jr. will be sentenced April 6. Brunn and Terragna will be sentenced April 13, and William Gilman will be sentenced April 20.

As part of a February 2007 plea agreement, Charles Gilman, the 51-year-old brother of Douglas Gilman Jr. and William Gilman, admitted to conspiring with Brunn, former Honolulu police officer Bryson Apo and Waialua resident John Saguibo, and pleaded guilty to two counts of running drug and gambling conspiracies.

In the plea agreement, Gilman admitted to running a $2,000-a-day cockfighting derby with Terragna that included card and casino games. Charles Gilman also told federal prosecutors that he paid Terragna and Brunn between $700 and $1,000 a week between November 2004 and March 2005 to protect his operation.

Brunn was a sergeant assigned to the Wahiawa station when the alleged crimes occurred from November 2004 through March 2005.

The Gilmans face up to five years for the gambling and conspiracy counts; five years for the obstruction of law enforcement; and up to 20 years for the extortion counts.

Terragna faces up to five years for the gambling and gambling conspiracy counts; five years for the obstruction of law enforcement; and up to 20 years for the extortion counts. Brunn faces five years for the obstruction count and up to 20 years for the extortion counts.

PROBE BEGAN IN 2004

The prosecution was the result of an FBI investigation that began in late 2004 after the bureau discovered that Charmaine Moniz, a secretary in its drug squad, was leaking information to her drug-dealing husband. A subsequent investigation, which included wire-tapped conversations, revealed that about five Honolulu police officers, including Brunn, were helping to protect the Gilman organization.

FBI suspicions about Moniz led to a two-year federal investigation that resulted in federal charges against more than 35 people, including Moniz's husband, Eric, five Honolulu police officers, the head of Aloha Stadium security and a Honolulu Liquor Commission inspector.

AN EXTENSIVE WEB

The FBI investigation, the most wide-ranging here in years, included taps on at least 10 phones and detailed an extensive web of illegal activity.

Three police officers — Brunn, Apo and Glenn Miram — were charged with trying to protect the illegal operations; another, John Edwin Cambra IV, was charged with hiding cockfight gaffs; and a fifth, Barry Tong, was charged with possession of an unregistered machine gun.

Apo was sentenced in June 2007 to 18 months in prison for leaking sensitive information about the police department's gambling detail to protect a cockfighting operation.

Miram is awaiting sentencing.

Charges against Cambra were dismissed.

Moniz was sentenced to four months in prison on Aug. 20, 2007.

On Aug. 10, 2007, former liquor commission inspector James Rodenhurst was sentenced to 17 months in federal prison for extorting owners of two bars and getting at least $2,000.

Rodenhurst, 57, who spent 10 years as a Honolulu police officer and four years with the commission, pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy and extortion charges.

Rodenhurst admitted that from 2004 to January 2005, he and Herbert Naone, 57, a former police officer and former chief of Aloha Stadium security, received money from the operators of the Volcanoes and Sin City nightclubs in exchange for notifying them when liquor commission inspectors would be going to the establishments.