LAKE STEVENS — A 40-year-old man has been charged for allegedly drugging and raping a teenage boy at a Lake Stevens home earlier in September.
The man and the 15-year-old boy were at a friend’s house, alone in the kitchen, in the early morning hours, on Sept. 1.
The boy was telling the man about his depression and anxiety, according to charging papers filed Friday in Snohomish County Superior Court. The man reportedly gave him a vape pen with CBD oil, a cannabis extract.
The man then left the room and came back with a small plastic bag of white powder. He allegedly used sunglasses to scoop the powder and jam it into the boy’s nose, saying it would make him feel like he was floating, according to court papers.
The boy later told detectives that he didn’t feel like he was floating. The man jammed more of the powder into his nose.
“The victim felt he had no control over his body to stop him,” prosecutors wrote.
They ended up in the man’s room, but the boy said he couldn’t remember how they got there. “I have something for you,” the man whispered, before he allegedly injected a needle into the boy’s arm and made him snort more drugs. The man reportedly said he had had given him methamphetamine, according to court papers.
The boy said he felt “dead” and couldn’t move or react to the man.
That’s when the man raped him, he reportedly said.
Two days later, Lake Stevens detectives obtained a search warrant and looked through the defendant’s belongings. Among them were used hypodermic needles that contained wet blood and a small plastic bag of what appeared to be methamphetamine.
The man was arraigned Monday on charges of second-degree rape. He remained in jail Tuesday with bail set at $100,000.
Zachariah Bryan: 425-339-3431; zbryan@heraldnet.com. Twitter: @zachariahtb.
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