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UPDATE: Woman Raped Man Arrested,
Another Sought Arcata Eye has more details…

The witness accounts include
several horrifying details, with suggestions that there may be more
to the story than police have so far been able to verify.

Woodward said the victim was shaken, but not distraught when she
first appeared in the parking lot and asked to borrow a cell phone.
Avelar described her as kind of
crying.

Woodward said her face bore a fresh red handprint, the fingers
clearly outlined on her cheek, apparently from one of the rapists
clamping his hand over her mouth to keep her silent during the
attack.

APD Sgt. Todd Dokweiler said the rape survivors
family lives in Eureka. Woodward said she called her father on the
borrowed cell phone. Witnesses said she told him she had been raped
and that it sounded like he told her to take a cab home. She said
that she couldnt, because her boyfriend had
robbed her.

She told her dad that her boyfriend had left
her high and dry and stolen her money, Woodward
said.

Several of those present report hearing the victim mention three
men, not two, the third being the boyfriend. Some mentioned seeing
two other men, not just the one outstanding suspect, leaving Walker
behind in the wooded area and escaping via the trail that leads up
to Seventh Street.

She said her boyfriend and the two guys were
friends, Avelar said.

Dokweiler confirmed that the victim initially mentioned three men.
Within a few minutes, she recanted
that, he said….

Police arrest man, seek another in Arcata rape suspect
pleaded guilty in 2008 Trinidad assault, got probation full
story

Man arrested for rape in Arcata, another on the loose
yesterday’s brief report
Arcata police arrested one man and are looking for another
believed to have sexually assaulted a 25-year-old woman near the
Arcata Sports Complex Monday night.

Kevin Scott Walker, 37, of Eureka was booked into Humboldt County
jail on suspicion of rape. The second man remains on the loose. He
is described as a white or Indian male adult in his early twenties
with dark shoulder-length hair and thin facial hair. He was last
seen wearing a dark colored jacket.

Officers responded to the 300 block of Community Park Way for the
report of a sexual assault at 11:17 p.m. They located a 25-year-old
woman being comforted by bystanders….

In 2008, Walker pleaded guilty to felony assault in what was widely
believed to be a hate crime in Trinidad. Walker was arrested in May
2008, along with 18-year-old Collin Roczey, after witnesses
reported seeing three men fighting in a Trinidad beach parking lot.
Witnesses said Walker and Roczey were holding another man down,
hitting his head on the ground, hitting him with a metal pipe and
stepping on his face while shouting racial slurs.

The two men were originally arrested on suspicion of assault with a
deadly weapon, sexual assault and kidnapping, but pleaded guilty to
the assault charge in a plea deal.

Walker was in Humboldt County Superior Court Tuesday for violation
of probation related to the 2008 case.
In court Tuesday, the prosecutor told the court she did not yet
have a new filing on Walker. Judge Bruce Watson set Walker’s
arraignment for Thursday.

Actually they pled guilty to assault with force likely to
produce great bodily injury, which carries a two, three or
four-year sentence. They were originally charged with kidnapping
to commit a crime, assault with a deadly weapon and sodomy in
concert with another person. Apparently, he got
probation.

Gang rape at Arcata Sports Complex. 50 feet away
from softball play. – samoa softball
APD Also quoted in the Eye story above
updated

Man arrested for rape in Arcata yesterday’s first
breaking report

Prior reports:
Charging decision expected today in Trinidad
assault case 5142008
A grisly assault reportedly occurred at Trinidad Beach over the
weekend, resulting in the arrest of two suspects and a victim being
treated at a local hospital…
Two men plead guilty in assault 6212008
Two men charged in an allegedly racially-motivated assault in
Trinidad last month entered guilty pleas to one count in Superior
Court this week.

According to court documents, Kevin Scott Walker, 35, and Collin
Gregory Roczey, 18, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of felony
assault with a deadly weapon.

Together they face a minimum penalty of 2 years and a maximum of 4
years in prison.

Three other felony charges related to an alleged sexual assault on
the victim, including kidnapping to commit rape or robbery, were
dismissed as part of a plea deal, according to court documents.

Deputy District Attorney Arnold Klein said he will wait for the
completion of a probation report to make a suggestion on their
penalty to the judge….

Transient sodomy suspects plead guilty to lesser crime – Eureka
Reporter no longer online
Two transient men arrested in early May on suspicion
of sexually assaulting and beating up a man near Trinidad Beach
pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge that could keep them in jail
up to four years.

Collin Gregory Roczey, 19, and Kevin Scott Walker, 35, were
arrested by the Trinidad Police Department on May 10 after several
911 calls were made regarding a man being beaten and kicked by two
men in the parking lot. It was discovered that the victim was
physically and sexually assaulted and both suspects were reportedly
yelling racial slurs at the victim as they were attacking him.

Alcohol was consumed and allegedly the two
arrested suspects turned on the third transient by sexually
assaulting him by sodomy, the Trinidad police log
said. The two suspects then followed the victim
to the parking lot of Trinidad Beach and physically assaulted him
by kicking him in the head and punching him.

The men pleaded guilty to assault with force likely to produce
great bodily injury, which carries a two, three or four-year
sentence. They were originally charged with kidnapping to commit a
crime, assault with a deadly weapon and sodomy in concert with
another person.

Humboldt County Deputy District Attorney Arnold Klein, who
prosecuted the case, said hes waiting to see
the report from probation before recommending sentences for the
men.

Probation sentence for Trinidad assault
7172008
Two men who pleaded guilty to weapons charges in an allegedly
racially motivated assault against another man in Trinidad were
sentenced Wednesday to three years
probation with no additional time in jail.

They will have to serve 300 hours
of community service.

Judge Bruce Watson credited Collin
Roczey, 18, and Kevin Walker, 35, for the 60 days they served in
jail. However, Roczey’s probation was amended, and Watson
stipulated he must complete high school, or a GED program, and
become gainfully employed under the terms of his
probation.

Both men were charged for court costs and restitution fees.

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