Updated at 3:01 p.m., Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Alleged Internet predator indicted
By Ken Kobayashi
Advertiser Staff Writer
Brian Y. Uejo, a Nanakuli resident and an accountant, is accused of using the Internet to try to set up a sexual encounter with a person he thought was a 15-year-old girl. In fact, the person was an investigator.
He was arrested Nov. 15 outside the McCully-Moi'ili'ili Library, where he had set up the meeting, according to state prosecutors.
Uejo is charged with electronic enticement of a child, an offense which carries up to 10 years in prison.
Under a law passed this year, Uejo, if convicted, would have to serve a mandatory one-year jail term.
The indictment sends the case to trial. It canceled a hearing this afternoon to determine whether the prosecution had enough evidence for a trial.
Uejo is being held on $20,000 bail. He is expected to be arraigned at Circuit Court later this month.
Reach Ken Kobayashi at kkobayashi@honoluluadvertiser.com or 525-8030.
Reach Ken Kobayashi at kkobayashi@honoluluadvertiser.com.