Suspect in stabbing has extensive criminal history

Vancouver police capture homicide suspect

The homicide suspect that led Vancouver police on an hours-long manhunt Thursday is a convicted sex offender with an extensive criminal history in Washington and Oregon, according to court records.

The rap sheet for Vancouver-area transient Jack Raymond Yancey, 57, includes 22 criminal convictions spanning nearly 20 years, according to a declaration of criminal history prepared by Clark County prosecutors for Yancey’s most recent sentencing, in June. A handwritten note on the document, however, says Yancey denied and contested most of those convictions.

Most recently, Yancey pleaded guilty June 20 to first-degree criminal impersonation, a class C felony, and was sentenced to 18 days in the Clark County Jail, according to court documents.

The impersonation incident took place June 2 at 3700 X St. Yancey, who had been accused of being involved in a disturbance, told a Vancouver police officer multiple times that his name was “Raymond Lynn Yancy” when the officer questioned him, according to a probable cause statement. “The defendant tried to hide the fact he was listed as an active homeless sex offender living in Vancouver,” according to the statement.

In 2009, Yancey was convicted of third-degree rape in an October 2008 incident in Cowlitz County, according to court documents. A 23-year-old woman told Cowlitz County sheriff’s deputies that she was asleep in a Longview home in the early morning hours of Oct. 25, 2008, when Yancey woke her up and raped her, according to a report by The Daily News in Longview.

Yancey is listed on the National Sex Offender Registry as a Level 1 sex offender.

Yancey’s criminal history dates to at least 1995, when he was convicted of possession of a controlled substance in Multnomah County, Ore., according to the declaration of criminal history prepared by Clark County prosecutors. A year later, he was convicted in Clark County for possession of stolen property and for driving with a suspended license, court documents say.

In the years to follow, he racked up convictions for controlled-substance possession, failure to appear in court, bail jumping, domestic violence assault, violating a protection order, methamphetamine possession, criminal trespass and driving with a suspended license, court documents say.