By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing teenager accused of having sex with an unconscious female friend at a Stillwater motel on May 20, 2021, has been ordered to appear in court on Monday when he can seek a preliminary hearing on a first-degree rape charge that was filed on Jan. 21 of this year.
Keaton Blake Johnson, 19, remains free on $50,000 bail with the condition that he have no contact with his alleged victim, court records show.
If convicted of having sex with a woman incapable of consenting due to lack of consciousness, Johnson could be given a prison term ranging from five years to life without parole, court records show.
In a telephone report to an officer last May, the alleged victim said she rented a room at a Stillwater hotel so that she, a female friend, and Johnson “could hang out and drink alcohol together,” Stillwater Police Detective Mary Kellison wrote in an affidavit for an arrest warrant that was filed in court records on Jan. 24 of this year.
The trio arrived at the hotel at about 9 pm on May 19, 2021, and stayed until 8 am on May 20, 2021, the affidavit alleged.
During an interview, the alleged victim admitted to the detective, “she had 5-6 alcoholic drinks and Keaton had approximately two beers,” the affidavit said.
She also admitted that the trio smoked marijuana on that night, the affidavit alleged.
She said, “she became intoxicated and passed out on the hotel room floor about 1:30 am on May 20,2021,” the affidavit alleged.
She said, “she knew Keaton knew she was intoxicated because he helped pick her up and put her onto the bed,” the affidavit alleged.
About 2 am, she said, “she woke up to Keaton having sex with her,” the affidavit alleged.
She said, after “she asked Keaton what he was doing,” he stopped, covered her up with a blanket and said, “nothing,” before walking away from her, the affidavit alleged.
After making a police report on the morning of May 20, 2021, she went to the Stillwater Medical Center to get an examination that showed abrasions and lacerations in her genital area, the affidavit alleged.
Seven months after that alleged incident, Johnson was charged with drunk driving a truck on Highway 33, one-half mile east of Highway 177 in Perkins, and transporting an opened container of beer on Dec. 17, 2021, court records show.
Johnson was released from jail the next day on a personal recognizance bond and has been scheduled to appear in court on April 11 on the two-count misdemeanor charge punishable by a maximum of 18 months in jail on conviction.
Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator Brandon Myers wrote in an affidavit that at about 3:37 pm on Dec. 17, 2021, “I could hear Stillwater police dispatching officers to a hit and run crash in their city limits,” in which the suspect vehicle “was last seen at a high rate of speed southbound on Hwy. 177.”
“I drove north from Hwy. 33 and Hwy. 177 and intercepted the suspect vehicle southbound at about 104th Street. I checked the vehicle with my radar at 81 mph. I was able to turn around on the truck and catch up to it at the intersection of Hwy. 33 and Hwy. 177,” the investigator alleged in his affidavit.
After the truck stopped one-half mile east of Hwy. 177, “I contacted the driver, 19-year-old Keaton Johnson,” and his 19-year-old male passenger, the investigator wrote in his affidavit.
“I asked them if they were just in a crash in Stillwater and left the scene. They denied they were in a crash and said they had just left a Chinese restaurant pointing at two go box containers on the dash,” the investigator alleged in his affidavit.
When the passenger got out of the truck, “I noticed an opened can of Busch Light beer in the passenger door of the truck and a Busch Light 18-pack beer box containing 9 unopened cans of the same brand beer in the passenger floorboard.
“The beer that was in the passenger door was almost full and also cold to the touch. I then contacted Keaton again and asked him to step from the vehicle.
“I noticed when he opened the door of the truck, there were 4 unopened cans of Busch Light beer in the driver’s door pocket. One of the cans was a little less than 1/4 full and was still cold. I asked him if he had been drinking and he told me that he had two beers,” the investigator alleged in his affidavit.
After Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Don Howard conducted field sobriety tests, the driver and his passenger were both arrested. Johnson consented to a breath test for the presence of alcohol, which registered .08, the affidavit alleged.
“Stillwater police reported to me that the victim in the hit and run had no damage to their vehicle and declined a report,” the investigator wrote in his affidavit.
