Second rape charge filed against Port Angeles man

PORT ANGELES — Another charge of rape was filed last week against a 21-year-old Port Angeles man who was charged with forcible rape and indecent liberties last year.

Cole Brayden Locut has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He remained in custody in the Clallam County jail in lieu of $100,000 bail Thursday night.

Trial is scheduled for June 13, with a hearing May 5 to set the schedule.

Locut was charged with second-degree forcible rape last Friday.

He had been charged in December with one count of forcible rape and one count of indecent liberties.

The December charges were filed after a woman told Port Angeles police that Locut forced her to have intercourse with him while she was doing laundry at his house in early December and later that day tried to have intercourse with her again at her home after he dropped her off.

The second forcible rape charge was filed after another woman came forward and told police that she initially tried to fight Locut off but eventually gave up.

The woman did not report the incident, which she said occurred in January, at the time but reported it in March after she had heard of his other charges.

Victims of sexual assault are not identified because of the nature of the crime.

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