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Posted: Thursday, October 29th, 2009 5:22 AM HST

No contest plea entered in Waikiki sexual assault

By Associated Press

HONOLULU (AP) — A man responsible for a series of break-ins and a sexual assault at the University of Hawaii has pleaded no contest to the sexual assault of a woman in her Waikiki apartment. Twenty-two-year-old Mark Heath pleaded guilty last year to breaking into UH dorm rooms and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old coed in 2007. The Waikiki woman was assaulted earlier that year. The former Schofield Barracks soldier was linked to the Waikiki case through a DNA sample taken after he admitted to the university crimes. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Thalia Murphy said yesterday that she will seek a 60-year prison term for Heath. He is to be sentenced in January by Circuit Judge Dexter Del Rosario. (Copyright 2009 Associated Press. All rights reserved)