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Man accused of sexually assaulting woman in her assisted living facility has violent criminal past

By Joanna Small
By Joanna Small

SEATTLE — KIRO 7 has obtained new details on what police say was the brutal rape of a woman in her 70s.

Louis Charles Arbee, 41, is accused of breaking into the woman's room at Falcon Ridge assisted living facility in SeaTac on Thursday, and sexually assaulting and attacking her so severely that prosecutors say she was bleeding from head to toe. Arbee is being held in the King County Jail on $750,000 bail.

Arbee was incarcerated for nearly two decades in the California prison system, and he was arrested in King County just days before prosecutors say he committed this heinous crime.

"He comes in through the window, tears off her nightgown and rapes her on the floor.  During this time, he strangled her and repeatedly hit her in the head," Deputy King County Prosecutor Logan Bryant said in court Monday. Arbee waived his right to appear.

Court documents say Arbee was a complete stranger to his victim, whom he attacked so brutally.

"At one point, he hit her so hard, her dentures came out," Bryant told the judge.

Arbee served nearly 20 years in the California state prison system for charges ranging from attempted kidnapping to robbery and was found guilty of battery and rape while incarcerated.

He was released in 2015 and was under the supervision of the Department of Correction in Washington. He was arrested in King County on July 15 for an unknown offense. Then, prosecutors say, on July 20, he attacked the 71-year-old woman, who was sitting in a chair by her open window.

"The whole place has been on lockdown ever since it happened," one Falcon Ridge resident said of the terrifying incident.

The facility administrator told us Falcon Ridge recently had problems with surrounding homeless encampments. All residents have emergency pull cords, but he victim was not able to pull hers.

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