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AG Andrea Campbell's brother goes on trial for raping nine women he picked up posing as an Uber driver

Tuesday, May 12, 2026•
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AG Andrea Campbell's brother goes on trial for raping nine women he picked up posing as an Uber driver

Empanelment began Monday in Suffolk Superior Court for Alvin R. Campbell Jr., 45 — the brother of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell. Prosecutors say he filmed his own attacks.

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BOSTON — Jury selection began Monday in Suffolk Superior Court in the rape trial of Alvin R. Campbell Jr., 45, the brother of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell.
Six of the 16 jurors needed — including four alternates — had been seated before Judge Mary K. Ames as of 1 p.m. Tuesday. The rape, sexual-assault and kidnapping counts, spread across three Suffolk dockets, have been combined for a single trial.

The case, in facts

  • Defendant: Alvin R. Campbell Jr., 45, of Cumberland, R.I., with prior ties to Lynn.
  • Alleged victims: Nine women, between 2017 and 2019.
  • MO, per prosecutors: Posed as an Uber driver, picked up intoxicated women leaving Boston-area nightclubs and bars.
  • Charged scenario: In December 2019, prosecutors say, Campbell pulled up to The Harp — the Causeway Street bar near TD Garden — posed as the Uber for a woman leaving a holiday party, drove her to his home in Cumberland, R.I., and held her there for roughly three hours while she was sexually assaulted.
  • Recordings: When Boston police arrested Campbell in early 2020, detectives recovered videos showing seven different women being assaulted, prosecutors say. A ninth alleged victim was identified later from a 2018 recording running more than 46 minutes — the woman in it described in court records as "unconscious or semi-conscious or unresponsive."
  • Plea: Not guilty.
  • Custody: Held in custody continuously since his January 2020 arrest, WBUR reported.
  • Later charge: In April 2025, while awaiting trial at the Nashua Street Jail, Campbell was charged with assaulting a corrections officer there.

The AG, then and now

When Campbell was first arrested in 2020, his sister was a Boston city councilor.

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"Extremely heartbroken and saddened and devastated by these allegations," Andrea Joy Campbell said at the time.
She has served as the 45th Attorney General of Massachusetts since January 2023 — the first Black woman to hold the office.
On Monday she issued a new statement to Boston.com.
"As my brother's trial begins, I am praying for the survivors and all those affected," she said. "It takes extraordinary courage to come forward, and they deserve dignity and respect."
Her office has no role in the prosecution, which is being handled by the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.

The four-year police failure that came first

A 2024 WBUR investigation found that Boston police had received DNA matches linking Campbell to sexual assaults in at least four separate incidents between 2016 and 2019 — and did not arrest him until early 2020. In one 2017 case, prosecutors withdrew charges after concluding it would be "nearly impossible to prove lack of consent, due to incapacitation." Boston and Medford police declined to explain why they did not search Campbell's phone sooner.
It was that phone — once detectives finally got it — that turned a single 2019 kidnapping investigation into a nine-victim case.
Opening statements are expected once empanelment wraps.

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