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Star City Police arrest man for second-degree sexual assault

MORGANTOWN — Star City Police arrested Ivan Luna, of Texas, and charged him with second degree sexual assault.
Second-degree sexual assault is a felony and is punishable by 10-25 years in prison and fined not less than $1,000 or more than $10,000 in addition to the prison time.
Luna is being held in North Central Regional Jail in lieu of $15,000 bond.
According to a criminal complaint:
On July 11, a woman told police she had been sexually assaulted the day before. She said she met Luna at Sheetz on Chaplin Road and he bought her alcohol in exchange for her phone number. Later, she and a male friend, Jaquan Ivy, went to Hotel M on Saratoga Avenue, where Luna and a co-worker were staying.
At the hotel, Luna gave the woman a beer and half a Xanax. Ivy tried multiple times to call the victim and get in the room, which he was locked out of, because he feared something would happen to her. Ivy said she answered the phone once, but the woman told police she must have blacked out and does not remember answering.
When she did open the door, she was wearing one of Luna’s shirts and was asked for it back. The two said they went back to Ivy’s apartment. The woman said her private area felt “strange” when she woke up the next day. On her to way to class, at about 10:30 a.m., she stopped to use the bathroom and noticed her underwear was inside out and had blood on it.
The woman said she is a lesbian and never had sex with a man. A rape kit was performed.
Photographs show Luna and the victim at Sheetz on Chaplin Road getting alcohol like she reported.
When the officer confronted Luna, he denied knowing the victim or meeting any women. He said he has a significant other back home and has not slept with anyone in West Virginia.