The notice on Craigslist said, "We have a nice room available for rent (female only) in our exceptionally large tri-level executive mansion."

It didn't say that the landlord is a convicted sex offender.

That man, Harrison Mew, 57, yesterday was sent back to jail for 60 days for violating the terms of his probation.

Four women who were living in the luxury Kane'ohe Bay house with Mew, including his new wife, Julia Jahnke, spoke to reporters after yesterday's court hearing to express their shock and outrage at Mew's duplicity.

Mew was properly registered as a sex offender living at the Kane'ohe home but he used phony names when he dealt with his tenants, they said.

Now he's under investigation by Honolulu police for allegedly fondling a 19-year-old female tenant earlier this year, said Jahnke, a German national who married Mew in January.

Jahnke said she gradually found out about Mew's criminal history.

"At the beginning, I didn't know anything," she said. "Then I found out more and more."

She said she told other tenants at the home Monday about Mew's criminal record and that the name they knew him by, Jonathan Ching, "is a fake."

"He projected that it was a safe place to be," said one of Mew's tenants, La Shelle Entsminger, who recently moved here from Arizona.

Mew seemed like "a charming, nice guy," Entsminger said. "Now I feel betrayed."

She said she was paying $800 per month to live in a room at the home at 44-113 Pu'uohalai Place.

'LIVE IN A CASTLE'

That's the same price quoted in a current Craigslist notice for another room at the house.

"Currently, we have other single women living in the home and would like to find one more female individual who is drama free, responsible, and trustworthy," the posting said.

"Here's your chance to live in a castle while being on a budget in this safe upscale neighborhood," the posting continued.

Francoise Mueller has been living at the home with two small children.

"He said he wanted to help women who are struggling," Mueller said of Mew.

"It was all a cover-up," she said.

Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Michelle Pu'u described Mew as an "extremely dangerous sex predator."

She asked Circuit Judge Steven Alm to revoke Mew's probation because he had failed to notify his probation officer after he was questioned twice by police about allegations of sex assault and theft.

Mew has not been charged with those offenses and he "categorically denies" them, his lawyer, Todd Eddins, told Alm.

The theft investigation involves a rent refund check Mew gave to a former tenant, Eddins said.

When the check bounced, the tenant went to the police instead of to Mew, who later refunded the money in cash, he said.

WIFE'S ALLEGATIONS

According to Jahnke, the sex assault investigation involves a 19-year-old woman who, along with her husband, was a tenant at the house.

After the couple had a fight some six weeks ago, Mew agreed to give her a ride to the airport, although she was barefoot and wearing only a bikini, Jahnke said.

The woman later returned and alleged that Mew had touched her breast against her will, Jahnke said.

Jahnke also claimed that Mew "has a porno sex addiction" and has downloaded "tons" of pornographic material from the Internet.

Mew was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the 1980s after his conviction for a series of burglaries in the Kahala area that led to his being known as the "Kahala Panty Burglar."

Those crimes began as low-level thefts but increased in seriousness to break-ins, stalkings and disturbing phone calls to female victims, according to prosecutors.

After serving a prison and parole term, Mew was indicted in 1999 on new sex charges. He pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree sexual assault after police discovered a videotape showing Mew and a co-defendant assaulting a 19-year-old woman who was too drunk to stand without help.

That crime occurred in Mew's Pearl City auto air-conditioning repair shop.

PROBATION AGAIN

In 2007, he was sentenced to a new five-year probation term for failure to fully comply with Hawai'i's sex offender registration laws.

Police confiscated a large cache of pornography from Mew's home and office in 2006, according to court records in the 2007 case.

He was brought into court yesterday on the new probation violation charges.

Mew told Alm that he forgot to tell his probation officer about his contacts with the police.

"My family has a history of dementia and Alzheimer's," Mew said.

"I'm getting up there in age," he continued.

"You're only a year older than me, Mr. Mew," the judge told him. "That's not going to cut it."

Alm ordered Mew to spend the next two months behind bars, and then complete a sex offender treatment program.

"You have a history that causes me extreme concern," Alm said.

As a new condition of probation, Alm said Mew is "prohibited from living in the same house with any female" except for his wife.

Jahnke said outside court she hopes to get her marriage annulled.

Mew is the owner of a company called Hidden Hawai'i Inc., which offers "off the beaten path" travel adventures in the Islands. Jahnke said the company is now defunct, although its Web site is still in operation and lists the Kane'ohe house as a vacation rental.

She said Mew sold the company's assets and used that money, as well as funds from investors, to buy the Kane'ohe house on an agreement-of-sale basis.

But she claimed he hasn't been making his monthly payments on the house and is late on utility bills, too.