DPS trooper charged with sexual assault

On-duty officer forced a woman to perform oral sex on him, court documents allege

An on-duty Department of Public Safety trooper was accused of sexually assaulting a woman whom he forced into his patrol vehicle, according to court records.

Lee Boykin Jr., 31, was released Sunday afternoon from the Harris County Jail, where he was held on a $100,000 bond. The Houston Police Department handled the investigation.

The alleged assault happened around 9:45 p.m. Friday when a woman accepted a ride from a friend while walking back to a hotel with her husband. Boykin pulled over the car and the woman’s friend drove into the Express Inn parking lot at 9025 North Freeway, where she was expected to meet her common-law spouse, court records show.

The trooper, wearing his uniform and driving his marked car, handed the driver a traffic ticket for failing to signal a lane change and told the woman to get into his patrol vehicle. She complied and was told to sit in the front passenger seat.

She asked what she had done and the trooper “repeatedly told her to ‘shut up.’”

During the drive, Boykin looked up her criminal history and told her she had a warrant out for her arrest. He then drove to a dark parking lot at 10700 North Freeway and stopped next to a dumpster. He allegedly asked her to get out and to perform oral sex on him, court documents reveal.

Afterward, she said, Boykin placed his hand on his gun and told her to run.

The woman went to a restaurant to call police and flagged down a Houston officer in the

Long John Silver’s parking lot.

Records show police spoke with the woman’s spouse and friend. Both men corroborated what happened prior to her leaving with the trooper.

The trooper, while speaking to a Texas Ranger and an HPD investigator, said the encounter was consensual. Of the car ride, Boykin said the woman denied having a warrant out for her arrest, so he called dispatch to provide a photo.

He initially said the encounter ended with Boykin dropping the woman off near the restaurant, but later he admitted to asking the woman for oral sex. She agreed, he said.

The woman soon left, Boykin said, and he lingered at the parking lot to finish paperwork.

Soon after Boykin’s arrest, the state law enforcement agency suspended him and “initiated the process to terminate his employment,” officials said in a statement.

Boykin, who lives in Spring, patrols the Katy area and has worked with DPS for about four years.