A level 3 sex offender will be released into his wife’s custody at a Mountain View Drive residence April 18.

The Bonney Lake Police Department published a notification Friday that Curtis Pouncy, 53, had been approved for an alternative release plan by the state Department of Corrections.

Pouncy was convicted in 1983 on separate counts of rape in the first degree and rape in the second degree.

His first-degree rape conviction stemmed from a 1982 case in which he was found to have attacked a 13-year-old girl who accepted a ride from him at a Greyhound bus station in Seattle. According to the summary on his sex offense registration profile, he demanded sex from the girl under threat of asphyxiation.

In 1983, he raped a 19-year-old woman at knifepoint in his home after meeting her the day prior.

Pouncy was imprisoned on the crimes until 1997.

Shortly after his release, Pouncy was arrested for the attack of a 22-year-old woman who had invited him into her apartment. She escaped by jumping out a third-story window. The case led to a 1998 conviction on charges of unlawful imprisonment, felony harassment and assault.

Pouncy was sent to the McNeil Island Corrections Center in Steilacoom, and was placed in the prison’s Secure Commitment Center after being categorized as a sexually violent offender in 2006, following the passage of the federal Walsh Act concerning sex offense classifications. He was released to less restrictive housing in 2010 to attend community college.

Pouncy participated in sexual deviancy treatment during his sentence.

The alternative release plan will be monitored by the Department of Corrections, and will include restrictions such as direct supervision, continued treatment, curfew and GPS tracking.

Under the classifications in the Walsh Act, level 3 registrants are considered to be at highest risk of reoffending. The classification authorizes local police agencies, such as BLPD, to provide all necessary and relevant information about an offender’s release to the public.