Updated at 6:24 p.m., Monday, December 3, 2007
Waipahu man convicted of assaulting MPs at Mokuleia
Advertiser Staff
A 36-year-old Waipahu man convicted Thursday by a federal jury of assaulting and threatening two military police officers March 9 at Mokule'ia beach could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.Federal District Judge David Ezra will sentence Rex T. Harrison on March 24, 2008. Harrison is being held at the federal detention center.
The officers were patrolling the U.S. Army section of Mokule'ia beach located across Dillingham Air Field when the offenses occuured.
"I am satisfied with this conviction," U.S. Attorney for Hawai'i Ed Kubo said in a news release today, "and on the day that the defendant is sentenced, we will be asserting that the only just punishment in this case is jail."
