Ryan Alan Yocum sentenced to 57 months in prison for domestic assualt

Published 8:00 am Friday, November 6, 2015

By Anna V. Smith

Journal reporter

Ryan Alan Yocum, 41, has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for assault in the third degree for domestic violence, attempting to elude pursuing police vehicles and malicious mischief in the third degree. Yocum was sentenced Oct. 21.

The convictions stem from a domestic incident Aug. 24 at a cabin on Kanaka Bay Road that led to a pursuit on car and foot through Friday Harbor, ultimately ending behind the Spring Street baseball fields.

In court documents, the victim detailed the abuse she suffered while at the cabin with Yocum until she was able to escape while he was unconscious. The victim was physically abused, degraded and taunted by Yocum after he forced her to remove her clothes.

“The severity and duration of what the defendant did to [the victim] in that cabin merits a sentence at the top end of the standard range,” reads the state’s sentencing recommendation. “In addition to the harm and humiliation he imposed on [the victim], the defendant put the entire community at risk when he drove at extremely high and erratic speeds through the island … This defendant’s behavior is more extreme and more calloused that [sic] that of the average offender … “

Yocum’s criminal history includes one juvenile felony of burglary in the second degree, fourteen misdemeanors and six adult felony convictions, including burglary, assault and felony in possession of a firearm. Yocum will serve 101 consecutive months in prison with a no contact order to the victim.