Justin Lowe
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — A 36-year-old Stillwater man has been given a 10-year prison term by District Judge Jason Reese for raping a 16-year-old girl while she was unconscious from alcohol and marijuana intoxication.
Justin Armand Lowe, who pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree rape, must register as a sex offender, provide a DNA sample, and serve 10 years of probation when he finishes his prison term, court records show.
Stillwater Police Detective Mary Kellison wrote in an affidavit that several witnesses “provided similar stories of what occurred on 10/17/24 and into the early morning hours of 10/18/24.”
A woman said, “several people in her residence were all partaking in drinking liquor, beer and smoking marijuana,” the affidavit said.
She said that the 16-year-old “had beer, about six shots of a liquor known as Hypnotic, some shots of Hennessey whiskey, and marijuana,” the affidavit said.
She said at about 4:30 am, “she and the people in her residence were going to wind down for the night and go to bed,” the affidavit said.
She said she and a girlfriend were sleeping on an air mattress in the living room, while the 16-year-old was supposed to sleep on another air mattress in the living room and Lowe was supposed to sleep in the dining room, the affidavit said.
She said Lowe laid down on the girl’s air mattress; then the girl laid down on the same air mattress and passed out, the affidavit said.
After the woman and her girlfriend heard noises, she went to her brother, “who then turned on the light in the living room and told everyone to get up,” the affidavit said.
She said that Lowe told her brother to turn the light off, but he refused to do so, the affidavit said.
She said that Lowe held a blanket covering himself, while the girl was still passed out on the air mattress, the affidavit said.
The woman said that when she confronted Lowe later about the incident, he minimized what happened and made the comment, “I’m going to jail,” the affidavit said.
The girl’s friends took her home where her parents called police, the affidavit said.
After filing a police report, the girl’s parents took her to the hospital to be examined and have a Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault kit performed, the affidavit said.
Lowe was arrested on Oct. 22, 2024, and questioned by the detective to whom he made certain admissions, the affidavit said.
