A 24-year-old 'Aiea man is being held on $25,000 bail, charged with trying to use the Internet to lure an underage girl into having sex with him.

Police said Erik Kobayashi was arrested Wednesday in a Manoa parking lot where he went to meet the "girl," who in reality was a Honolulu police officer.

The officer, posing as a 13-year-old girl, had talked to Kobayashi in an Internet chat room several times since November, police said. Using an online screen name, Kobayashi said he wanted to meet the girl to engage in sex, police said.

Police watched Kobayashi several times earlier this year as he went to different locations in Manoa looking to meet the "girl" and finally arrested him after in his black pickup truck near the Manoa Public Library.

Kobayashi is charged with first-degree electronic enticement of a child.