Man Accused Of Posing As Ride Share Driver To Face Rape Charges

BOSTON — A Rhode Island man was indicted this week on charges that, while posing as an Uber driver, he kidnapped and raped a woman who had left a Boston bar while intoxicated. He's due back in court Monday to face arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court.

Alvin Campbell Jr., 39, was arrested and charged with kidnapping, two counts of aggravated rape, three counts of indecent assault and battery and one additional count.

He has been held on $250,000 bail since his Jan. 9, arraignment in the Central Division of Boston Municipal Court and his indictment was returned Tuesday, March 3.

On Dec. 6, a 26-year-old woman left a Causeway Street bar and got into what she thought was an Uber ride to her home a few minutes away. Instead, she woke up hours later at Campbell's home in Cumberland, R.I., with no memory of events in between, according to police.

Prosecutors said a police and a grand jury investigation showed that Campbell sexually assaulted the woman while she was incapacitated, under circumstances in which he knew she was incapable of consent.

This is the latest in string of similar kidnapping and assaults of young women from Boston bars.

Last January a 23-year-old Jamaica Plain woman went missing after leaving a Boston bar. Police found her three days later at Victor Pena's home in Charlestown. Police charged him with kidnapping and 10 counts of rape. The following month a woman in her 20s named Jassy Correia disappeared after leaving a different Boston bar. Her was found in the back of a car in Rhode Island

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