Former Oak Bluffs Fire Chief John Rose has been arrested and charged with photographing, videotaping, or electronically surveilling partially nude or nude persons, the Cape and Islands District Attorney Rob Galibois announced Saturday.
The DA’s office was unable to confirm where the arrest was made.
The charges are a result of an investigation conducted by the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit, who had followed up on December reports that Rose was allegedly in possession of video recordings he’d made of an individual performing sexual acts on him. The recordings were allegedly made without the individual’s consent, the DA’s office says.
Rose is set to be arraigned in Edgartown District Court Monday and is currently being held without bail.
Rose, 53, who resigned from the Oak Bluffs Fire Department in January 2018 — amid both sexual harassment claims and ambulance billing issues that prompted an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation — had been working as a volunteer with the West Tisbury Fire Department since Feb. 2022.
Last month, he was suspended indefinitely from the West Tisbury Fire Department after an uncontested criminal harassment prevention order against him was granted by an Edgartown District Court judge, to an unnamed individual.
Jail is where he should stay.
He was the guy with the video camera at the naked fireman party back in 2009! Watch out dukes county – firemen Gone wild!
“But, Scorpion, why did you sting me?” cried the frog.
God throw this animal in Jail and give him a title sex ofender . Again !!!
God throw this animal in Jail and give him a title sex ofender . Again !!!
Marcia, I agree with you but I think you would surprised by how many of your neighbors prefer animals like this to be roaming free without restrictions while out on bail. Please refer the comments in the Two arrested in Edgartown sting story. At the very least he should be under house arrest without access to the internet or photographic equipment. But given the way progressive bail reform works it depends if you are a member of some special protected class they deem worthy if you get released on your own recognizance or held without bail until trial. But to be fair the judge does have to take into consideration how strong the commonwealths case is when considering bail along with other aggravating and mitigating factors. It used to be that you could trust judges to be impartial and apolitical but sadly those days are long gone. Progressives have taken over the bench and most of the bar.
Please forgive me for using this analogy…but…”where there’s smoke…(usually) there’s a fire…especially after it’s happened a couple of times.
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