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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. |
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2026-04-28 | 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 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
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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 ↩︎