Authorities yesterday charged a 20-year-old man with second-degree sex assault and first-degree burglary stemming from an alleged Dec. 1 attack on a woman. Bail for Keoni Manibog is $100,000.

Manibog was arrested Tuesday on Punahou Street after a chance sighting by the 20-year-old victim. According to a police report filed at District Court, the woman saw Manibog walking at 12:45 p.m. and told police he was the man who broke into her apartment and assaulted her.

Police say four were selling sex

Four women were arrested last night at a Kapi'olani Boulevard nightclub on suspicion of soliciting sex for a fee.

Honolulu police narcotics/vice Capt. Kevin Lima said the women are employees of Club Tomorrow at 1551 Kapi'olani Blvd. They were arrested at 10:50 p.m. Huang Meng, 29, was charged with three counts of prostitution while Julia Chun Chu, 28; Mikyung Fitzpatrick, 42; and Yong Sook Lee, 51, were each charged with one count of prostitution.

Woman rescued from canoe

A Lahaina woman adrift in a canoe that Coast Guard and Maui firefighters were searching for yesterday swam safely to Moloka'i.

Kimberly Dovre, 33, told police she had to abandon the canoe when it overturned and drifted north with the current to the southeast shore of Moloka'i. She contacted police at 11:30 p.m. Dovre was treated for exhaustion, hyperthermia and dehydration at Moloka'i General Hospital.

Dovre and a friend, 32-year-old Kelly Keahi, were in a 25-foot outrigger canoe disabled by high surf about 200 yards out of Napili Bay. Keahi swam ashore for help while Dovre remained in the canoe.

The search for Dovre began at 5:30 p.m. yesterday.

Surf closes Hilo bayfront road

The outbound Hamakua lane of the bayfront road in Hilo was closed to traffic today because high surf was washing water onto the roadway. The lane was closed at 6 a.m., about 4 1/2 hours before high tide.