In case you missed it, Hawaii entertainer Cecilio Rodriguez, of Cecilio & Kapono has been released early from a Los Angeles jail due to overcrowding. 

The AP reports: 

Rodriguez was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading no contest to molesting two young California girls in the 1990s.

But according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department records, 67-year-old Rodriguez was released July 17.

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