Registered Sex Offender Faces Rape and Extortion Charges in Clallam County

Clallam County prosecutors have charged Kevin H. Corning with 10 offenses involving alleged sexual assaults at a woman's Port Angeles home and a separate accusation that he demanded money from a tenant under threat of burning the tenant's artwork.

The charges filed October 14 include first-degree rape, third-degree rape, indecent liberties by forcible compulsion and first-degree extortion.

Corning, 53, also faces two counts each of first-degree burglary, first-degree criminal trespass and fourth-degree assault. Both burglary counts and both assault counts include allegations of sexual motivation.

At his October 12 preliminary appearance, Judge Brent Basden set bail at $250,000, half the $500,000 prosecutors requested.

Judge Basden also declined the state's request for GPS monitoring if Corning were released, according to court records.

Corning appeared in custody October 14, when Judge Elizabeth Stanley scheduled his arraignment for later this morning. He is represented by the Clallam Public Defender's office.

Police identified Corning as a registered sex offender with two prior convictions for third-degree rape of a child. The arrest report also lists convictions for intimidating a witness and bail jumping.

Prosecutors outlined his criminal history at the bail hearing. The defense said Corning worked full time and asked that bail reflect his financial circumstances.

Judge Basden prohibited contact with the woman, restricted Corning's travel to Washington and barred him from possessing firearms or other deadly weapons. The order also prohibits him from arranging for electronic devices to be remotely wiped.

Port Angeles Detective Beth Hollis described the sexual-assault investigation in an arrest report filed with the court. She interviewed the woman August 18, 2026, about incidents the woman said occurred in spring 2025.

The woman told Hollis she had repeatedly told Corning she did not want a sexual relationship. She described waking to find him in her bedroom during one incident. In another, she said, he pushed into her apartment and raped her despite her repeated refusals, according to the report.

Hollis wrote that, with the woman's permission, she obtained medical records documenting disclosures of sexual assault to health-care providers in 2025.

A neighbor told Hollis she had seen a man banging on the woman's door in May 2025. She said the woman told her later that night that the man had forced his way inside and sexually assaulted her.

In October, the woman exchanged messages with Corning under a court-authorized recording order and provided the records to police, according to Hollis. The detective wrote that some of his replies acknowledged previous sexual contact.

Police arrested Corning October 9 during a traffic stop near East First Street and South Golf Course Road and seized a cellphone under a warrant. Hollis reported that, after his arrest, Corning told her to examine who had contacted whom and who had blocked whom.

The extortion charge stems from a separate investigation into a tenant's belongings in May 2025.

Officer Logan Bennett wrote that the tenant supplied a video and messages in which Corning demanded $4,000, later increased to $5,000, for the return of artwork and threatened to burn it.

The tenant later supplied a photograph showing Corning beside burning artwork and a video of artwork and furniture burning, according to Bennett's report. The tenant identified the artwork as his.