A 54-year-old Longmont woman who was accused of drugging and raping a male friend last year is expected to agree to a plea deal later this week.

Janice McCarl had been scheduled for trial beginning Monday, but that was canceled, and a judge scheduled a time for McCarl to return to court on Friday to accept a plea deal. Details of the agreement aren’t known.

If convicted of felony sexual assault, McCarl could have been sentenced to up to 16 years in prison, if a judge found exceptional aggravating circumstances.

McCarl is accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with a 50-year-old male friend Nov. 9 at his Longmont home, where he was hosting a backyard barbecue. The man told police he passed out after drinking beverages that he suspects were drugged, and remembers partly waking up a half-hour later because of a painful sensation, according to a police report.

The man told officers he remembers the woman’s hands were on him, and the next day he found McCarl sleeping next to him with her shirt covered in blood and lotion, according to police.

The man said he spoke with McCarl later, according to police, and she admitted to drugging him the night before — although she wouldn’t say why. McCarl apologized, and he told her she was “mean, nasty and disgusting,” police wrote in the report.

Longmont police Cmdr. Tim Lewis has said the two had a consensual intimate relationship before the alleged assault. When questioned about the incident, according to police, McCarl laughed and said, “What did I do, kill somebody?”

Lewis has said his department rarely receives reports of women sexually assaulting men, and a victims’ advocate said McCarl’s case is only the second she can remember in the past decade.