$250,000 Bail for Man Arrested on Suspicion of Raping Juanita Neighbor

Bail has been set at $250,000 for a Kirkland man booked into the King County Jail Wednesday on suspicion of first-degree rape and burglary after he allegedly pushed his way into a neighbor’s apartment in Juanita and assaulted her.

Bail was set when the man made his first appearance in the case Thursday in King County Superior Court. He remains in jail and will be formally arraigned on the charges on Monday.

Court documents indicate a Kirkland police investigation found that the man had met the woman that day at the apartment complex they both lived in, and that he later came to her door. When she refused to let him in, the documents say, he shoved the door open and grabbed the woman from behind.

As she resisted, he assaulted her in a sexual manner before she was able to break free, grab a phone and flee to her deck. He left as she called a friend, and then 9-1-1.

Soon after police found the man walking on a sidewalk some 100 yards from the woman’ apartment and arrested him.

The apartment complex is in the 10000 block of NE 138th Street in Juanita.

The man has a previous convictions for second-degree robbery and communicating with a minor for immoral purposes.

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For an earlier Kirkland Patch story:

Kirkland Man Arrested on Suspicion of Raping Neighbor in Juanita