A Brockton Superior Court jury convicted a former Boston deputy fire chief Thursday on more than a dozen charges stemming from a series of rapes in which he lured women into his car by impersonating a police officer, prosecutors said.
Peter Pearson, 56, of East Bridgewater was convicted of five counts of aggravated rape, one count of assault with intent to rape, four counts of kidnapping, two counts of indecent assault and battery, and four counts of impersonating a police officer, Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz said in a statement. Pearson was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison, followed by five years of probation.
“Today’s verdict brings justice for five women who found the strength to come forward to testify about unspeakable crimes,” Cruz said. “As a result of their sacrifice, a predator of 11 years is off the streets.”
The Brockton rapes occurred over a period of 11 years, from 1997 until Pearson’s arrest in 2008, said Bridget Norton Middleton, a spokeswoman for Cruz.
Pearson used his firefighter’s badge, a handheld radio, and sometimes a gun to further the illusion that he was an officer and lure his five victims into his car, where he forced them to perform sexual acts, the statement said.
He would also discuss his fabricated work as a state trooper in the narcotics division or attending policemen’s balls to ensnare his victims, Middleton said.
A lot of people fabricated things at the drug lab.
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"Boston Fire Department office shut over suspicious mail" by Lauren Dezenski | Globe Correspondent, May 09, 2013
The office of the Boston Fire Department’s Fire Prevention Division was evacuated and shut down when an envelope containing a powdery substance was opened early Thursday afternoon, the department said....
Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald said in messages posted on Twitter that all tests on the envelope with white powder had come back negative, but that the envelope would be sent to the state lab for further testing....
In another incident on Thursday, Harvard Law School tweeted around 3:30 p.m. that police were investigating a suspicious package containing white powder that was sent to Hauser Hall on Massachusetts Avenue....
Please stop it with the psyop s***. Is that the next false flag, a bioweapons attack?
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