WAILUKU – Four men have been indicted in connection with allegations that a Speedi Shuttle manager received kickbacks while providing unauthorized payroll checks to employees during a nine-month period ending last year.

Daniel Kapahu, Joshua Awai, Ryan Haole and Darien Black are each charged with criminal conspiracy to commit theft in the first degree. Awai, Haole and Black also are each charged with second-degree theft.

Kapahu, who had been Maui manager for the company, is also charged with use of a computer in the commission of a separate crime and first-degree theft.

According to the indictment, the crimes occurred from June 28, 2013, to March 28, 2014. Kapahu, who is also known as Daniel Orta, allegedly input false time records for Awai, Haole and Black into the computer software used by the company and provided unauthorized payroll checks to the three employees, the indictment alleges.

Kapahu allegedly requested payments or kickbacks from Awai, Haole and Black in exchange for providing the unauthorized payroll checks. The second-degree theft counts allege the three men each received more than $300 from the company.

Kapahu is alleged to have stolen more than $20,000 from Speedi Shuttle, according to the indictment.

During arraignments this year in 2nd Circuit Court, the four defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Kapahu, 43, of Makawao was released after posting $70,000 bail.

Awai, 25, of Waiehu and Black, 20, of Kahului were released after each posting $15,000 bail.

Haole, 43, of Pukalani had been released after posting $15,000 bail. But he was taken back into custody Friday on a $30,000 bench warrant for failing to appear at a court hearing two days earlier. He was being held at the Maui Community Correctional Center.

Trials are pending for all four defendants.