Ex-Honolulu officer gets 10 years for sex assault of girl ADVERTISING Ex-Honolulu officer gets 10 years for sex assault of girl HONOLULU (AP) — A former Honolulu police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting
Ex-Honolulu officer gets 10 years for sex assault of girl
HONOLULU (AP) — A former Honolulu police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
Jessie Laconsay pleaded no contest to six sexual assault counts in November.
Prosecutors say the 37-year-old Laconsay assaulted the girl over a 2½-year period.
Thursday’s sentence was part of a plea deal Laconsay made with prosecutors. The initial charges would have carried a mandatory 20-year prison term.
A police affidavit said the girl’s mother found them having sex in June. The girl told her mother they had sex before.
The document says Laconsay fled in his police car. That prompted an all-points bulletin seeking help finding him. Police later found him at a beach with cuts on his wrists.
He resigned after 10 years with the department.
Lihue airport sees record low rainfall in December
LIHUE, Kauai (AP) — The rain gauge at an airport on Kauai went lower than it has been in 66 years last month, according to the National Weather Service.
The gauge at the Lihue Airport recorded 1.17 inches of rain last month, two times lower than the monthly average. It hasn’t been that low since 1950, the weather service said.
October is the start of the wet season on Kauai and winter months usually bring heavy rains.
“The airport had a record dry December, which surprised me a bit because it’s not the normal weather pattern I’d expect for the winter months,” said Kevin Kodama, hydrologist for the National Weather Service on Honolulu.
The Lihue airport measured 13.39 inches of rain in 2016, compared to a yearly average of 37.05. Kodama said Kauai is in the midst of a small drought.
The island as a whole saw nearly 1,600 inches of rain last year, according to data from 26 gauges scattered across the Garden Isle. Kodama said most of the island saw a more typical rainy December, which helped a bit with drought recovery.
“But we’re not fully out of the drought; grass is just starting to come up,” said Kodama. “Rainfall is still needed.”
