A man living in a luxury Kakaʻako condo is accused of swindling two Honolulu medical offices out of cash, checks and company property, with one dentist estimating losses of at least $80,000. Quan “David” Hoang Vu, 32, has also been labeled a fugitive with outstanding warrants in California court records, even as he denies the allegations piling up on both sides of the Pacific.
According to Honolulu Civil Beat, Dr. Kyrell Wright, a dentist with offices in Kaimukī and Kalihi, accused Vu of stealing money from his practice. Wright alleges Vu instructed patients paying by check to leave the pay-to-the-order-of line blank, then deposited those checks into his own personal account after filling in his name. Wright and former staffer Donni Ching also said Vu offered patients cash-payment discounts and pocketed the money himself, at times removing the corresponding procedures from medical records altogether.
Ching said Vu was fired in October 2025. Wright accused Vu of stealing money from his practice. Wright's patients reportedly continued finding incorrect balances on their statements even afterward.
A Second Honolulu Medical Office Reports a Missing Laptop
[b4] Wright's practice was not the only Honolulu office to accuse Vu of wrongdoing. A separate medical office that briefly employed him filed a police report alleging he failed to return a company laptop, and another Honolulu dentist has accused him of stealing additional money from that practice, as reported by Honolulu Civil Beat. Vu has lived for months in a luxury Kakaʻako condo at Victoria Place, and neighbors reportedly spotted him walking a dog named Cupcake around the neighborhood.
California Court Records List Vu as a Fugitive
[b7] The accusations extend well beyond Hawaiʻi. California court records classify Vu as a fugitive with outstanding arrest warrants, and the Orange County District Attorney charged him with identity theft and grand theft in April, as noted by Honolulu Civil Beat. Dr. Monique Sison-Aweau, an Orange County dentist, said she interviewed Vu for an office manager job after he responded to her Indeed ad in March 2025. She and Jamison Aweau paid him $200 for a half-day working interview, and Sison-Aweau offered him the position contingent on a routine background check — which Vu signed an employment letter for but would not agree to complete.
[b8] Sison-Aweau said she later found $18,000 in unauthorized charges on her dental practice's account, and she and Aweau said Vu used routing and account numbers from his interview check to pay off an American Express card; the couple filed a police report over the alleged charges, Honolulu Civil Beat reported at Honolulu Civil Beat. Jamison Aweau told the outlet, “I don't know how the algorithm did that,” describing how he eventually connected the dots on Vu's background. Vu has said he had a warrant tied to an unpaid fine from 2021 that had since been cleared, and maintained that the California defendant was a different, decades-older person who happens to share his name — though court records reportedly show that defendant's birth year matches his own. He also denied knowing either dentist accusing him and told Civil Beat the story was “completely wrong.”
Indecent Exposure Case and a Viral TikTok Nickname
Vu separately faced an indecent exposure charge in Honolulu in May, accused of exposing himself to someone he was not married to in a manner likely to cause affront. He initially pleaded not guilty, saying he was inside his own apartment when neighbors filmed him through his windows. Prosecutors later reduced the charge to disorderly conduct, and Vu changed his plea and paid a $100 fine.
Dominique Bird, a 39-year-old Honolulu state government worker, said she met Vu on Tinder in May and dated him for three months last summer. She said he extended what was supposed to be a one-week trip to more than three weeks while she dog-sat Cupcake, and that he still owes her $75 for dog food. Vu called Bird “completely crazy” and said he had reported her to police several times for harassment; he also said he did not know either dentist accusing him and had repaid Bird for the dog food.
[b12] Bird posted TikTok videos warning other women about Vu after researching his background, nicknaming him “the HNL Swindler” — a reference to Netflix's “The Tinder Swindler.” She said the video went viral and drew complaints from people in multiple states, and that she received roughly 20 messages from women and businesses sharing their own encounters with him. Bird said Vu later threatened legal action, after which she took her videos down earlier in the week the article was published. Vu faced identity-theft and credit-card-fraud charges years earlier in Virginia that were ultimately dropped, per a report from Honolulu Civil Beat. He denies the full range of allegations against him.
