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category: "Organized Crime"
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aliases:
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- "Hugh Scott Mellor"
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tags:
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- Person
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- ChildAbuse
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- Massachusetts
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summary: "Brighton, Massachusetts, realtor, owner and president of a real estate holding company, arrested at Louisiana's request and charged in the Troop 137 case."
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created: 2026-04-28
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updated: 2026-09-22
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---
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Hugh Scott Mellor, 54, of Brighton, Massachusetts, was reported to be the owner and president of Reservoir Realty, Inc., a real estate holding company. Boston-area police arrested him and the industrialist [[Richard C. Jacobs]] 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]]. He was described in May 1977 as a millionaire, one of nineteen men charged in the case.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^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
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