Ex-HPD officer gets 10 years in assault of girl

Former Honolulu police officer Jessie Laconsay was sentenced Thursday in state court to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting an underage girl.

The sentence was part of a plea deal he negotiated with the prosecutor in exchange for his no-contest pleas.

Laconsay, 37, pleaded no contest in November to four counts of second-degree sexual assault and two counts of third-degree sexual assault. A grand jury returned an indictment in June charging him with four counts of first-degree sexual assault instead of second-degree assault. First-degree sexual assault carries a mandatory 20-year prison term.

The charges accused him of sexually assaulting a girl who was under 16 years old over a 2-1/2-year period.

Laconsay, a 10-year veteran of the Honolulu Police Department, resigned Dec. 2.

Man arrested for alleged sexual assault

Police on Thursday morning arrested a 61-year-old Ala Moana man who allegedly sexually assaulted a female.

The man apparently turned himself in at the main police station, and was arrested on suspicion of two counts of first-degree sexual assault and three counts of third-degree sexual assault.

The victim reported being sexually assaulted by the suspect, police said.

Police released the man pending further investigation.