BRIEFLY IN PUBLIC SAFETY

Suspect in molestation waives hearing

A 79-year-old man arrested in June on suspicion of inappropriately

touching two Costa Mesa girls 12 years ago waived his preliminary

hearing on Tuesday at Harbor Justice Center.

Charles Pauley will be arraigned at the Center Justice Center in

Santa Ana on Sept. 2.

The girls, sisters who were 5 and 7 years old when police say the

crime occurred between October 1991 and October 1993, complained to

Costa Mesa Police in May that Charles Joseph Pauley engaged in lewd

conduct with them, officials said.

The Orange County District Attorney’s office has charged Pauley

with four felony counts of performing lewd acts upon children younger

than 14. Pauley had pleaded not guilty to the charges.