Updated: This morning, Stephen Rehage was charged with rape. The executive producer of the Voodoo Experience was booked into Orleans Parish Prison, but no details about the allegations are available at this time.

Update 10:36 a.m.

More information is now available. According to Nola.com:

He surrendered to NOPD sex crimes detectives Friday who had obtained a warrant for his arrest on one count of simple rape, a crime in which the victim alleges he or she was forced to have sex without giving consent.

According to Fox8Live.com:

Defense attorney Pat Fanning says the incident in question happened in June when Rehage and the alleged victim were out all night.  Text messages were shared between Rehage and the victim. He said the messages showed a very friendly relationship between Rehage and the woman. Fanning claims the woman said she was raped to cover up the relationship to her boyfriend.

Fanning said the case is being looked into again as part of District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s crackdown on unsolved rape cases.

Updated 1:21 p.m.

Ramon Antonio Vargas updated the Nola.com story to include the allegation:

Investigators allege that Rehage, who turns 47 on Saturday, agreed to meet a woman for dinner at a Lakeview restaurant on June 21. The woman drank martinis while waiting for Rehage, who arrived late. When he showed up, they chatted and drank more martinis before moving to a nearby restaurant for more cocktails.

“She recalled speaking with several (people) while she and … Rehage were seated at the bar,” and right around then she blacked out, police reported in criminal court filings obtained by The Times-Picayune.

When she regained consciousness, she was lying naked in a bed, disoriented. She alleges that Rehage was on top of her with his hands around her neck, choking her. She gasped for air and in a whisper told him, “Stop,” she told police.

Rehage allegedly stopped and let her neck go. She said she passed out again, woke up and walked out of the house into the backyard. She called several “friends and family members on her cell phone” and told them “she was in danger and unaware of her location,” police wrote in court documents. Rehage urged her to come back inside; the victim complied and lay on the sofa and waited for Rehage to fall asleep, court documents allege.

When he dozed off, she got up and looked for a way out of the house. The police arrived; she greeted them at the door but did not tell them about any sexual assault, police reported. The officers took her home.

The victim later went to Interim LSU Public Hospital and had staff members perform a sexual assault examination on her. It revealed that the woman had vaginal tears symptomatic of forced sex and bruises around her neck consistent with strangulation; her visit, however, was classified as “unreported” because she did not wish to report the incident to the police department, according to court documents.

Later, the victim discovered that the toxicology test taken during the examination showed she had ingested the prescription drugs propoxyphene and diphenhydramine, according to the police report. The woman returned to the hospital and said she had not knowingly taken those drugs – both of which can cause drowsiness and whose effects are worsened when mixed with alcohol.

The woman returned to the hospital on July 26 and filed a report with police that she had been raped by Rehage. A detective later interviewed Rehage, and in the company of a lawyer, Rehage acknowledged going to dinner and attending a party with the woman. He told the detective she had several alcoholic drinks before he arrived. He purchased more drinks during their meal and was with her afterward at a party, where she drank even more. He acknowledged only “her intoxication and her behavioral change,” police wrote in court documents.