Spokane felon accused of rape, burglary

A 14-time felon accused of raping a woman in an abandoned house in downtown Spokane told police the sex was consensual, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

Kelvin D. McCauley, 43, was arrested Tuesday night near Third Avenue and Monroe Street after a woman told police she’d jumped from a second-floor window in the 1100 block of West Fifth to escape him.

The 21-year-old woman was taken to a hospital with broken ribs and a broken wrist; police aren’t sure if the injuries came from an assault or the jump.

She told police she was walking downtown when she met McCauley “and began talking to him about God,” according to court documents. He invited her to his house to see his kids when he forced her upstairs at knifepoint and raped her, police said.

McCauley, who has 38 misdemeanor convictions, was ordered held on $150,000 bond after appearing in Superior Court on Wednesday on charges of second-degree rape and first-degree burglary.