BOSTON — A Massachusetts judge let a convicted Lyft predator walk out of court with his passport intact, no GPS monitor, and a two-week window to "sort out family and housing issues" before he was supposed to report to jail.

He vanished.

Jimmy Pierre — a Haitian national who came to the U.S. in 2010 — pled guilty on May 19, 2026 to taking a nude photograph of his Lyft passenger, a Northeastern University senior who had passed out in his back seat after a night out. He was sentenced to one year in jail.

He was supposed to surrender Tuesday, June 2, to start serving that sentence. Instead, he no-showed. A warrant is now out for his arrest.

Prosecutors objected to Pierre's request for a two-week delay between his guilty plea and the start of his sentence, telling the court the survivor had been "revictimized" for more than two years as the case dragged on. The judge granted the delay anyway. Pierre was permitted to walk out of court on May 19 without a GPS monitor and without surrendering his passport — meaning the convicted Lyft predator was free to travel anywhere, including back to Haiti.

He chose not to show up Tuesday morning.

Pierre was initially charged with rape, indecent assault and battery, and photographing an unsuspecting person in the nude.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office dropped the rape and sexual assault charges, citing what prosecutors described to WCVB as a loophole in Massachusetts law: to convict someone for sex with an incapacitated person, prosecutors must prove the defendant knew or should have known the victim was too incapacitated to consent. That bar, in this case, was deemed too high to clear.

The single remaining conviction Pierre pled to was the nude-photo charge — a one-year sentence.

A warrant is out for Pierre's arrest. He was last seen leaving court on May 19, 2026. He left with his passport.

Whether Massachusetts law enforcement catches up with him before he is out of the country — or whether he is already gone — is the open question for tonight.

This is a developing story.