City worker charged in sex assault to go to trial
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Harold Villanueva Jr. ,47, left Pearl City District Court on Sept. 19.
HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT
Harold Villanueva Jr., 47, city worker charged with 4th-degree sexual assault was seen in a police mugshot taken in July.
A city worker who was depicted on live video allegedly propositioning a transgender probationer for sexual favors will face a jury trial in Circuit Court.
Harold Villanueva Jr. was arrested in July on a charge of fourth-degree sex assault. His lawyer asked for a jury trial when his 47-year-old client appeared in court Tuesday before Ewa Beach District Court Judge Michael Marr, who set a Nov. 7 trial date
Police began investigating Villanueva after his accuser Makana Milho, 21, secretly recorded and posted live to Facebook about 30 minutes of conversations that she alleges were between her and Villanueva who was supervising her court-ordered community service.
Milho, who was fulfilling the terms of her probation, had been ordered to complete six days of community service to get a theft charge expunged from her record. She said her fifth day was interrupted when the work-site supervisor acted inappropriately.
One of the videos went viral, garnering 197,000 Facebook views, 2,042 shares and 1,350 comments within days. Two others received thousands of views and hundreds of comments.
In the viral video, a man can be heard telling Milho that she can go home early if she will perform sexual favors. Milho also alleged that he tried to hold her hand and pinched and slapped her buttocks while she was cleaning park bathrooms.
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28 responses to “City worker charged in sex assault to go to trial”
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Thanks for updating the photo. The bolo head mug shot was difficult to look at.
No mattah he stay scary / gross in both pics! jus in time fo Halloween.
Yeah, would be a perfect Quasimodo costume.
Yikes this Bugga get one twin thats one Fotograpa of young girls !
I just like let them know Halloween is on 10/31 monday !
Their costumes REAL SCARY !!!!
it sort of sums up the rank incompetence and corruption of many of our overpaid public servants.
how are public servants overpaid?..they have to serve the ungrateful public..they should be paid more for putting up with you folks
Thank you hanabatadays. Yes!
I get so tired of gratuitous trash-talking about public servants. And the people who complain? Long-time observation – they’re the first in line for handouts when a crisis comes.
But so few would have any job if they lost heir overpaid City and State jobs.
The original Donald Trump the molester.
Happy Halloween
WOW!
Scary is right! Yuck!
Like an article I once read – The Pear Shaped Man.
He just wants to be loved. Is that so WRONNNNNNNGGGGGG?
Poor guy, even a prostitutes would turn him down! Sad!
Any brothel taking him in should demand a hazard surcharge. At lest I’m sure he’ll be loved in prison. LMAO
Poor guy, even my dog would turn him down.
The coercion involved with this case was recorded. Pau hana for this guy.
Ugly bugger.
is caldwell his boss?
Cladwell too busy taking pictures with uncle Abercrumby at the Gay Pride Parade to keep an eye on this buggah.
You’re always reliable for a nasty snarky comment, aren’t you?
So this is where Jabba the Hut has been all this time. Wow, the years have not been kind, he looks terrible.
There’s no coming back from something like this.He’ll be labeled a sex offender and the victim will probably sue the city. Why hasn’t the city moved to fire this demon? No need to wait for the trial, the incidents were captured on video.There’s no doubt of his guilt, he should have done a plea bargain with incompetent Kaneshiro.
On the other hand Kaneshiro is obsessed with prosecuting sex crimes like prostitution, he likes to prosecute people for these types of crime.At least this time there’s an actual victim, most times there isn’t.
I haven’t seen the video evidence. Regardless, most if not all the comments here are about his appearance. Bottom line is that appearance does not equate to guilt or criminal tendencies. This is the kind of thinking that encourages bullying and unfair treatment. Also, let’s remind ourselves that the accused is innocent until proven guilty.
Yes Kimo but this guy is really UGLY !!!
But it’s just a recorded tape of a man’s voice, that could not be his voice…NOT
Perfect image of the human beings in the movie Wall-E!