diff --git a/docs/releasenotes.html b/docs/releasenotes.html
index 5edc1a675..a4be3fe21 100644
--- a/docs/releasenotes.html
+++ b/docs/releasenotes.html
@@ -130,6 +130,10 @@
         <li class="body">JDK 1.4 classes used by usage checks.
         (bug 876570)</li>
 
+        <li class="body">Error in reporting UnusedLocalVariable for
+        multi-dimensional array index.
+        (bug 878608)</li>
+
       </ul>
 
       <p class="body">
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/transmogrify/Resolver.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/transmogrify/Resolver.java
index c5aba97c0..4d71f77e7 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/transmogrify/Resolver.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/transmogrify/Resolver.java
@@ -928,11 +928,19 @@ public class Resolver extends DefinitionTraverser {
         SymTabAST arrayNode = (SymTabAST) (node.getFirstChild());
         SymTabAST exprNode = (SymTabAST) (arrayNode.getNextSibling());
 
+        //resolve index expressions
+        while (arrayNode.getType() == TokenTypes.INDEX_OP) {
+            resolveExpression(exprNode, location, context, referencePhase);
+            arrayNode = (SymTabAST) (arrayNode.getFirstChild());
+            exprNode = (SymTabAST) (arrayNode.getNextSibling()); 
+        }
+        
         ArrayDef array =
             (ArrayDef) resolveExpression(arrayNode,
                 location,
                 context,
                 referencePhase);
+
         resolveExpression(exprNode, location, context, referencePhase);
 
         return array.getType();
diff --git a/src/testinputs/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/usage/InputUnusedLocal.java b/src/testinputs/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/usage/InputUnusedLocal.java
index 76f1ec6bc..e96b052f7 100644
--- a/src/testinputs/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/usage/InputUnusedLocal.java
+++ b/src/testinputs/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/usage/InputUnusedLocal.java
@@ -47,4 +47,14 @@ public class InputUnusedLocal
         if (file != null) {
         }       
     }
+    
+    /** tests array index references */
+    public void testArrayIndex()
+    {
+        int [][][] a = new int[1][1][1];
+        int i = 0;
+        int j = 0;
+        int k = 0;
+        a[i][j][k]++;
+    }
 }