A 46-year-old man arrested in Honolulu Thursday has been charged with the murder of his wife seven years ago in San Diego.

Honolulu police officers arrested Anthony Simoneau, who lives on Makaloa Street, at 4 p.m. Thursday at 24 Sand Island Access Road on an extradition warrant requested by San Diego District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis.

Simoneau has been charged with one count of murder. He faces a maximum of 25 years-to-life in prison if convicted. 

Prosecutors allege Simoneau, killed his wife, Fumiko Ogawa, 42, a Japanese national.

Her skeletal remains were found on Jan. 20, 2007, by a couple traveling along a desert road to the Bow Willow Campground in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Park rangers and the sheriff’s department investigated. But her body was not identified until 2011. Officials used DNA from her family in Japan. 

By then, Anthony Simoneau had moved to Hawaii.

Ogawa was last seen near the home she shared with Simoneau in Point Loma around Jan. 4, 2007.

Simoneau never reported his wife missing.

According to a San Diego police affidavit, Simoneau filed for divorce in 2002. But his wife, who had inherited a significant amount of money, didn’t agree to the divorce.

The police statement said Simoneau told people that his wife was back in Japan caring for a relative. He told others she was in Hawaii working on their new home.

The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office will seek his extradition back to San Diego.

While in Hawaii, Simoneau was charged in August 2011 with theft for stealing luggage from Ala Moana Center and was sentenced in October 2011 to five years’ probation.

In August, a judge granted him a three-year period of deferral and set aside his guilty plea.