LAKEPORT, Calif. – A Lakeport Police Department investigation has resulted in the arrest of a Lakeport man who is alleged to have sexually assaulted a female teenager in February.

Officers located Joseph Barber Skee, 20, outside a residence in the 4400 block of Oak Avenue in north Lakeport just before 2:30 p.m. Friday and took him into custody, according to Lakeport Police Lt. Jason Ferguson.

The 17-year-old girl who is the alleged victim in the case contacted the Lakeport Police Department late on the afternoon of Feb. 20 to report that she had been sexually assaulted while at a party at an unknown Lakeport residence on the night of Feb. 13, Ferguson reported.

During the interview with the juvenile, officers learned that she was contacted at the party by an acquaintance known to her as “Joe Skee,” and that he propositioned her for sex but she declined, Ferguson said.

Ferguson said the juvenile female told the officers that she recalled waking up the next morning and saw Skee lying next to her with his pants and underwear down, leading her to believe that she was sexually assaulted.  

Officers initiated an investigation over the course of the next few months and, with the assistance of the Lake County Victim-Witness Office and District Attorney’s Office, developed information to obtain an arrest warrant for Skee, Ferguson said.

Skee was arrested for rape of an intoxicated person and rape of a person who is unconscious, according to Ferguson.

Ferguson said Skee was transported to the Lake County Jail and booked, with bail set at $100,000.