A 37-year-old Honolulu police officer was indicted Wednesday on charges of raping a 14-year-old relative of his girlfriend in the couple’s Kapolei home last week, according to court documents.
Jessie Laconsay is being held at Oahu Community Correctional Center unable to post bail of $500,000. An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday, charging Laconsay with two counts of sexual assault and one count of third-degree sexual assault.
According to a police affidavit in Honolulu District Court, at 6 p.m. June 7, Laconsay’s 32-year-old girlfriend arrived at the home in Kapolei, where she had been living with the suspect, to find him engaged in sexual intercourse with a relative on a living room couch. Under state law, sexual contact with a person under 16 years old is considered sexual assault. The suspect admitted to his girlfriend, whom he had been living with for the past eight years, that he had sex with the juvenile female on two other occasions, court documents say.
The police affidavit said that when Laconsay’s girlfriend confronted the suspect, he was “crying and yelling,” telling her that they can work things out.
The victim also told the woman that she and Laconsay had been having sexual relations for a while.
Laconsay, a patrol officer assigned to Windward Oahu, was arrested June 8 at 12:20 p.m. at Army Beach in Waialua and taken to a hospital with wounds that police said were self-inflicted.
Arresting officers said Laconsay had a deep cut on his right wrist and another cut across his left wrist, according to the police statement. There was a serrated knife on the floor of the suspect’s white Dodge Charger.
The arresting officer reported the suspect said he was sorry for “letting us down” while he was being treated for his wounds, the affidavit said.
Laconsay was hospitalized at Wahiawa General Hospital and later transferred to the Queen’s Medical Center until he was released Friday.
Laconsay, a 10-year veteran of the Honolulu Police Department, is on unpaid administrative leave.
The hunt for Laconsay began June 7 after the sexual assault was reported, with authorities issuing a Crime- Stoppers bulletin describing the suspect and his white Dodge Charger.
