Luke Armstrong, the son of former cyclist Lance Armstrong, has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in Austin, Texas, when he was 18 years old.
Armstrong, now 21, is charged with sexually assaulting a child due to the alleged incident in June 2018, according to an affidavit from the Austin Police Department obtained by NBC News. He was arrested Tuesday and released the same day.
An Armstrong attorney, Randy Leavitt, denies the assault.
“What happened in high school three years ago was not a crime and was not a sexual assault,” Leavitt said in a statement Thursday. “It was an agreement between two young people at the time and was constantly going on in different ways.”
The victim, who was not named, told police in November 2020 that she was drinking at a party on June 22, 2018 and called Armstrong to ask him to pick her up, according to the affidavit. The victim said she could not remember the ride to Armstrong’s father’s home, but did remember waking up there and being assaulted that night, the statement said.
In December 2020, police assisted the victim in making a call to Armstrong, where he admitted that he had sex with the victim there, and admitted that he also drank that evening, according to the affidavit.
A former 2018 and 2019 runner-up for the Rice University football team, Armstrong has been selected for the 2020 season due to Covid-19, a Rice University Athletics spokesman told NBC subsidiary KXAN. The university confirmed to KXAN that Armstrong is still a student there.
Armstrong’s father, Lance Armstrong, won the Tour de France seven times before being stripped of the titles following revelations that he had used drugs for a large part of his career.
The Associated Press contributed.