The judge denied Ah Chong’s request for a deferred plea, which would have erased the conviction from Ah Chong’s record had he stayed out of trouble with the law during his probation.
A 19-year-old Hawaiian Paradise Park man who pointed an air pistol at his girlfriend and her friends and demanded custody of his infant son in October has been sentenced to 90 days in jail.
On Tuesday, Hilo Circuit Judge Glenn Hara told Dustin M.K. Ah Chong that some of the jail term could be stayed if Ah Chong enrolled in school before Aug. 2. He also sentenced Ah Chong to five years probation.
Ah Chong pleaded guilty last month to three counts of first-degree terroristic threatening. In return for his plea, prosecutors dropped three additional terroristic threatening charges, as well as a kidnapping charge.
The judge denied Ah Chong’s request for a deferred plea, which would have erased the conviction from Ah Chong’s record had he stayed out of trouble with the law during his probation.