Port Angeles Man Charged With Sexual Exploitation of a Minor and Voyeurism

A 39-year-old Port Angeles man faces four felony charges after investigators alleged he secretly photographed a 16-year-old girl in a shower and shared explicit images of minors through the messaging service Kik.

Clallam County prosecutors charged Tyrone Robert Tokarczyk in Superior Court on September 18 with sexual exploitation of a minor, first-degree voyeurism, second-degree dealing in depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and second-degree possession of those depictions.

Judge Simon Barnhart set bail at $250,000 during Tokarczyk’s September 16 preliminary appearance, below the $500,000 requested by prosecutors.

His arraignment is scheduled for 9 a.m. Friday, September 25, after the public defender’s office reported a conflict and withdrew at the September 23 hearing.

Judge Barnhart appointed attorney William Payne to represent him.

The investigation began September 15 after detectives received a National Center for Missing & Exploited Children CyberTipline report concerning an account on Kik, according to an arrest report filed with the court by Clallam County sheriff’s Detective Nicholas Cannady.

The tip included images and sexually explicit chat records supplied by Media Lab/Kik. Investigators linked the account to Tokarczyk through account information and photographs, the report states.

According to the report, a detective reviewing the material found 24 digital images reported to have been sent to other Kik users.

Among them were five images of a girl showering or getting out of a shower and five of another girl appearing to change clothes in a bedroom. The material also included clothed photographs and images of Tokarczyk.

The report describes messages in which the account holder claimed sexual contact with a child. During a subsequent police interview, Tokarczyk described the communications as “fantasy” and said he had never acted on them, according to Cannady’s report.

Investigators obtained a search warrant from Barnhart and contacted Tokarczyk at his Port Angeles residence at about 9:25 p.m. on September 15. Cannady wrote that he advised Tokarczyk of his rights, seized his phone and conducted a recorded interview.

According to Cannady’s account of the interview, Tokarczyk identified the girl in the shower photographs, whom the report lists as 16, and said the family did not know about the images. Tokarczyk said the photographs had been taken with his phone about a month earlier, on two separate occasions, the detective wrote.

Cannady wrote that he found a window between the bedroom and bathroom consistent with the shower photographs supplied in the tip.

Tokarczyk also identified the girl pictured changing clothes, according to the report. Investigators determined she was 17 at the time of the investigation; Tokarczyk said those photographs were several years old.

Detectives seized additional electronic and data-storage devices from the residence. Cannady reported that Tokarczyk provided his phone passcode and computer login information, and that investigators began making a forensic copy of the phone’s contents.

The charging document alleges the four offenses occurred between August 16 and September 13, 2026.

The sexual exploitation count alleges Tokarczyk knowingly caused a minor to be photographed without her awareness in images depicting sexually explicit conduct.

The voyeurism count alleges he viewed, photographed or filmed a girl without her knowledge and consent under circumstances in which she had a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Under the September 16 release order, Tokarczyk is barred from contact or communication with anyone under 18, including his biological children, and from possessing firearms or other deadly weapons. His travel is restricted to Washington state. The court also entered separate no-contact orders protecting three minors.