---
category: "Organized Crime"
tags:
  - Person
  - ChildAbuse
  - Massachusetts
summary: "Massachusetts industrialist, president of Jet Spray Corporation and a former part owner of the New England Patriots, charged in the Troop 137 case in 1976, who forfeited a 50,000-dollar bond to avoid trial in Louisiana."
relations:
  - type: head_of
    with: "[[Jet Spray Corporation]]"
    role: "president"
    fn: 1
created: 2026-04-28
updated: 2026-09-22
---
Richard C. Jacobs, 41, of Waltham, Massachusetts, was president of the Jet Spray Corporation, with corporate offices in Brookline and subsidiaries around the world, and had been reported to be a part owner of the New England Patriots. Boston-area police arrested him and the realtor [[Hugh Mellor|Hugh Scott Mellor]] at the request of Louisiana authorities; both were charged with conspiracy to commit homosexual rape and aggravated crimes against nature in the case of [[New Orleans]] Boy Scout [[Troop 137]], organized by [[Richard Halvorsen]] and [[Raymond Woodall]]. By May 1977 New Orleans police said Jacobs had forfeited a 50,000-dollar bond to avoid standing trial in Louisiana.[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Wright, Marilyn. *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1976-1977, and *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, both reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977, pp. 439-443. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041