During the weeklong trial, the victim, a 27-year-old Honokowai woman and mother of two, testified that Won stopped her car on Lower Honoapi'ilani Road in Kahana July 28 because of an expired safety sticker and eventually ordered her into his patrol car and drove her to the one-room Napili police substation, where they were alone.

In emotional testimony through a Spanish interpreter, Rosa Rodriguez, a Mexican national living here illegally, described how the officer motioned for her to lift her blouse and then motioned to indicate he wanted sexual favors.

She refused, and he handcuffed her and drove her back to her car. Won reported the traffic stop only after arriving back at the scene of her car, and he eventually took her to the Lahaina police station, where she was booked for driving without a license and having an expired safety sticker and no insurance.

Later that day, after Rodriguez was released from custody, she told her story to an officer who speaks Spanish. That led to Won's arrest and eventual dismissal from the Police Department.

Won, an O'ahu native who moved to Maui to become a policeman, testified that nothing happened at the Napili substation. He said he took the woman there because they were blocking traffic and he wanted to clear up the confusion caused by their inability to communicate. Any motions he made were misinterpreted, he said.

Won said he initially lied to investigators because it was against police policy to take someone to the substation, and he didn't want to lose his job.

Defense attorney Philip Lowenthal argued that the charges were too extreme, and that nobody was touched during the four minutes the two were alone in the substation.

Lowenthal suggested the woman made her accusations in an attempt to avoid being deported. There's a law, he said, that allows legal-resident status for cooperating with authorities in cases of this magnitude.

The jury deliberated for nearly 11 hours over two days.

Won will be sentenced by Maui Circuit Court Judge Joseph Cardoza on Feb. 10.