Alleged pretend rideshare driver and serial rapist Alvin Campbell is accused of assaulting a correctional officer on the Suffolk County jail.
Campbell, 44, was arraigned on the central Boston Municipal Court docket on one rely of assault and battery on a correctional facility worker. The accused serial rapist had one other $150 tacked onto his bail for these new fees, for which he’s due again in court docket April 24 for a pretrial listening to.
“Just like we often see with all our other law enforcement partners, the daily duties of a correctional officer can be unpredictable,” Suffolk District Lawyer Kevin Hayden stated in a press release saying the brand new fees in opposition to Campbell. “I am thankful the situation here was quickly contained.”
Campbell, who’s the brother of Massachusetts Lawyer Normal Andrea Campbell, is charged in his most important case with sexually assaulting 9 girls whereas posing as an Uber driver between 2017 and 2019.
The alleged assault that incurred this newest authorized hassle occurred on Nov. 27 of final yr, when a correctional officer reported that Campbell had punched him twice within the face earlier than 9 a.m. Campbell apparently tried to take a uniform high that wasn’t his throughout recreation time and reacted poorly to the officer telling him to go away the highest alone. Campbell allegedly unleashed a tirade of curses earlier than resorting to his fists.
Campbell, who was a Rhode Island resident on the time, was arrested in January 2020 and charged with quite a few counts of rape and kidnapping. He could be indicted on crimes in opposition to a complete of 9 girls.
Prosecutors say that Campbell, who already had a protracted rap sheet, posed as a rideshare driver, and generally a bar bouncer, and would choose up blackout-drunk girls round Boston. They’d cross out in his automobile, prosecutors say, and Campbell would use his cellphone to file himself sexually assaulting them.
Campbell’s rape trial has been pushed again repeatedly as he goes by way of a collection of protection attorneys. Court docket paperwork point out his newest trial date is about for Sept. 8, 5 and a half years after he was indicted on the costs.
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