PORT ANGELES –– A Port Angeles man arrested for investigation of kidnapping and rape charges is scheduled for arraignment at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Clallam County Superior Court.
Maxx Edward Johnson, 26, remained in the Clallam County jail Monday, held on $150,000 bond.
Johnson is being held for investigation of first-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping charges for allegedly kidnapping a woman at knifepoint during the early morning hours of June 11, leading the woman to various locations around Port Angeles, then raping her in an apparently abandoned building, court documents say.
The victim told police she was walking near the alley behind Safeway on South Lincoln Street when an unknown man approached her from behind and held a knife to her throat, according to the probable-cause statement filed last Friday.
The woman told police the man, who she didn’t know, repeatedly said the name “Max” and said he was 26 years old.
Abandoned house
The man then took the woman to various places surrounding downtown, including the beach in the west side of Estuary Park, before he took her to an abandoned house on West Second Street, the police narrative says.
The woman told police the man forcibly had sex with her at the house.
She was able to escape after the man “passed out,” she told police. She then went to Olympic Medical Center where she made the report and a sexual assault examination kit was completed.
After Port Angeles police issued a press release the same day, police received a call saying that Johnson matched the description that was provided, the police report says.
On June 14, police completed a composite sketch of the suspect, which wasn’t released to the public.
An officer saw Johnson in the downtown area and arrested him last Thursday.
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