Chinatown man sentenced to 10 years for assaulting girl

The 45-year-old Chinatown man convicted of sexually assaulting and attempting to abduct a 9-year-old girl in 2018 at the Lucky Strike Social arcade in Ala Moana Center, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years imprisonment.

Circuit Judge Faauuga Tootoo sentenced Jason Dee Nolen to five years for third-degree sexual assault and 10 years for attempted kidnapping, to be served concurrently.

The judge also gave him credit for time served, which is just shy of one year because he was arrested on March 31, 2018.

The jury delivered the guilty verdict Dec. 18, agreeing with the prosecution that a bearded man with a ponytail was the man in surveillance videos touching the girl’s buttocks, then picking her up, was Nolen.

During Nolan’s trial, the girl testified that she walked away and into a video game booth, but Nolen followed her and grabbed her by the crotch and tried to carry her off.

The 9-year-old kicked him and broke free. Nolen fled the arcade.

During the trial, she identified the man in Lucky Strike and Ala Moana Center surveillance videos as the man who sexually assaulted her. But she could not identify Nolen in the courtroom as that man.

When police arrested him at his home 12 days after the sexual assault and kidnapping attempt, he was clean-shaven, and his hair was cut short. He appeared at trial with long hair, a heavy beard and a mustache.