Hearing set for UH sex assault suspect

A preliminary hearing for the 19-year-old University of Hawaii at Manoa student charged with multiple counts of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old female student Sunday will be held in District Court Oct. 17.

Tyler Strong was charged Monday with two counts of first-degree sexual assault and one count of third-degree sexual assault. He is free after posting bail of $60,000.

The incident was reported to police at 5 a.m. Sunday. Strong was arrested at 6 a.m. at Johnson Hall on Dole Street.

Sarah Rice, spokeswoman for the UH-Manoa Department of Public Safety, said Manoa campus officials did not send out an alert last weekend because a suspect had been arrested.

Rice said five sexual assaults have been reported to the UH Department of Public Safety since January, compared to seven cases in 2013.

Man arrested in cellphone robbery

Police arrested a 33-year-old Waipahu man Wednesday in the robbery of a 30-year-old man whose cellphone was taken.

Police said the victim told police the man hit him with a dangerous instrument and took his cellphone on Sept. 16 in Waipahu. The suspect ran away.

The victim reported that he saw the suspect Wednesday and called police.

Officers found the man near his home and arrested him on suspicion of first-degree robbery.