Sex offender who fled Canada pleads not guilty to raping, robbing 69-year-old
Michael Stanley (Photo: CBC)
SEATTLE -- A registered sex offender who cut off his GPS ankle bracelet and fled Canada to enter the U.S. last year pleaded not guilty Monday to raping and robbing a 69-year-old woman in her south Seattle home.
Bail has been set at $1 million for Michael Stanley, 49.
If convicted as charged, the defendant faces a minimum sentence range of 15 to 20 years up to life in prison.
Stanley, a registered Level III sex offender, was arrested Feb. 28 for investigation of burglary and rape, the King County Sheriff's Office said. Stanley allegedly broke into a home in the 8400 block of South 115 Street of South Seattle through a window on Feb. 27, deputies said, and confronted a 69-year-old woman.
Stanley raped the woman, deputies said, and left the home. The woman went to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Michael Stanley appears in King County Superior Court in November 2013. (Photo: KCPQ-TV)
Stanley has received all sorts of media and police attention since fleeing Canada in October. He has a history of violent, sexual crimes. He was convicted of kidnapping two boys from a school playground, as well as raping an 83-year-old woman in Edmonton, Alberta.
Stanley was under Canadian monitoring when he cut off a leg bracelet and fled to Seattle in October.
He was a registered sex offender in Canada, but because he hadn’t committed a crime in the U.S., police could not arrest him once he entered the country since he was a legal U.S. citizen. His name became public after it was suspected he may have had a hand in a Federal Way attempted abduction, but police later determined he wasn’t in the area.