PORT ANGELES — A 40-year-old man who was holed up inside a house for half-hour before he was arrested Tuesday will appear in Clallam County Superior Court on Friday to face possible rape and assault charges.
Dennis Lee Foust was arrested without incident Tuesday afternoon at a home on Fairmount Avenue after he and others inside the house refused to open the door for about 30 minutes, Port Angeles Deputy Police Chief Brian Smith said.
He faces possible charges on two counts of third-degree rape-domestic violence and three counts of fourth-degree assault-domestic violence, according to court records.
A hearing on the charges is set for 1 p.m. Friday in Clallam County Superior Court before Judge S. Brooke Taylor.
Five officers were present outside the house where Foust was arrested, Smith said.
“People in the house, including him, were refusing to heed our call to come to the door and talk to us,” Smith said.
“Once we were able to get someone to the door to talk to us, [Foust] surrendered to us, and we took him into custody.”
Protection order
An unidentified Port Angeles woman who had a protection order issued against Foust the day of his arrest said in the order that March 22, he had forced her to have sex with him and punched her.
She said Foust, the father of one of her children, had followed her, sat outside her apartment watching her residence and threatened her life at least 20 times.
According to a probable-cause statement filed Wednesday by the county Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, the victim said March 23 that Foust had repeatedly beaten her, grabbed her by the throat and pulled her by the hair a day earlier.
The woman’s daughter also had seen the altercation and threatened to call police, which was confirmed by the probable-cause statement.
The victim had numerous bruises on her forearms and legs from the assault, and also had a broken thumb from a previous assault by Foust, according to the statement.
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