BUZZARDS BAY — It takes a certain level of confidence to allegedly break into a senior home and flash two women in four days — all while you’re already facing charges for a separate sex offense. But it takes a special kind of court system to look at that and say: “Let’s give him another chance.”

Christopher Zarella, 24, of Sagamore Beach, is now facing three new charges: two counts of open and gross lewdness, and one count of nighttime breaking and entering. He was arrested July 10 after police connected him to a late-night break-in at a senior facility and two back-to-back flashing incidents at the same Cape Cod commuter lot.

The spree kicked off on June 27, just before midnight, when police say Zarella slipped into Keystone Place — a senior living community in Buzzards Bay. Staff spotted him. He bolted.

Roughly 24 hours later, a woman parked at the Sagamore Beach commuter lot said a man approached her car, exposed himself, and began masturbating. He ran. Two days later, it happened again — same lot, new victim, same routine.

Police identified Zarella and brought him in. It’s not his first time.

He already had an open case for open and gross lewdness from a previous incident. Prosecutors asked the judge to revoke that bail and hold him on the new charges.

The judge declined.

Instead, Zarella was released on personal recognizance — no cash bail, no monitor, no curfew. Just a polite court date and a collective shrug.

Bourne Police, not typically ones to name names, posted the arrest publicly on Facebook “due to concern for public safety.” Which in Massachusetts now seems to mean: “He's back on the street, so maybe keep an eye out.”

Zarella is presumed innocent until proven guilty. But at this point, even the court seems to be assuming the best.

Residents are left wondering: if three creepy late-night incidents in four days while you’re already facing a sex charge still doesn’t get you held… what exactly does?

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