A Waipahu man was charged today with allegedly using the Internet to set up a sexual encounter with a juvenile female.

Matthew S. Lewis, 33, allegedly showed up at a McCully location Oct. 15 at about 10:30 p.m., which was a site arranged with a Hawai'i Internet Crimes Against Children task force agent posing online as a 14-year-old girl. Lewis fled the scene but police arrested him yesterday at 4:45 p.m. at the Chinatown Cultural Plaza Shopping Center, 100 N. Beretania St., while he was teaching a martial arts class.

Authorities yesterday also seized evidence with a warrant search of Lewis' Lahaole Place residence at Village Park.

Lewis was charged with first-degree electronic enticement of a child and could be sentenced to 10 years in prison if convicted under a new Hawai'i law. He was in the process of posting $50,000 bail at 6 p.m. at the main police station cellblock.

The state Department of the Attorney General is expected to prosecute the cases.