Boston councilwoman’s brother, 39, ‘posed as Uber driver to rape nine women – and he filmed his attacks’
A BOSTON councilwoman’s brother has been charged with assault and rape after he allegedly would drive around pretending to be an Uber driver and film his sexual assaults.
Alvin R. Campbell Jr. has been charged with sexual assault between 2017 and 2019 by nine different women, who saw Campbell would pretend to be their rideshare driver and pick them up leaving from nightspots.
Boston police found a video Campbell, 39, made of the assault on an “unconscious or semi-conscious or unresponsive” woman in 2018 that lasted at least 46 minutes.
Campbell, the brother of Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell, was first charged with rape in 2019 after he allegedly recorded his sexual assault of a 26-year-old woman, the reported.
After he was arrested, detectives found videos of his attacks on seven other women.
He has been held in custody without bail since his indictment last year.
Authorities were then granted a search warrant into Campbell’s cloud storage, finding videos of a woman he had assaulted on June 16, 2018, timestamped at 5:42AM.
“The victim [was] unconscious and dressed while lying on her back on the backseat of the defendant’s SUV,” court documents read.
A prosecutor’s statement continues, saying Campbell “proceeded to rape her … for extended periods of time while she remained unconscious or semiconscious and unresponsive.”
The council member’s brother is then alleged to have taken a photo of the woman’s passport.
After authorities found her video in Campbell’s storage and found her, she told them she believed she was raped during the ride but never reported it to police.
The woman said she went out with friends in downtown Boston and had left the nightclub drunk waiting for a ride home.
“There was a black SUV parked nearby,” prosecutors said, adding Campbell was behind the wheel. The woman “entered the vehicle and had no memory of what ensued or where she was taken until she awoke in the back seat.”
City Councilor Andrea Campbell told the Globe she was “extremely heartbroken and saddened and devastated by these allegations.”
Her brother was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on Wednesday on three counts of rape and two counts of filming an unsuspecting nude person.
He is due back on April 27, but will be held in custody until he undergoes a dangerousness hearing.
“Women have every right to partake in and enjoy an evening out, to drink and to have fun without risk or fear of being harassed, violated or harmed,” said Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins.