Registered sex offender arrested again

Published September 27, 2019

MELROSE — A 33-year-old Beacon Place man, who was charged last year after allegedly climbing through a window of an Endicott College student’s dorm room and watching her as she slept, has been arrested again after police spotted him hanging around the back of a West Emerson Street apartment building.

Tyler Jacquard, 11 Beacon Pl., second floor, was arrested Saturday night, September 21, for a parole violation, trespassing and disorderly conduct, the latest in a lengthy history of similar charges for which he has rarely, if ever, faced serious punishment.

A woman who lives in an apartment on West Emerson Street went to the police station around 11:40 that morning to report a suspicious man hanging around her building. He may have been looking at her through her apartment window, she told police.

Around 8:30 p.m., two young officers on bicycle patrol decided to ride by the address and saw a man identified as Jacquard go around back. They waited, and when he emerged, he had no reasonable explanation for being on the property, police explained.

Jacquard is a registered sex offender.

Last November he was charged with climbing through an unlocked window at an Endicott College dormitory and standing over a woman while slept. That was about a year after he was arrested on charges that he was peering into dormitory windows at Wellesley College.

At the time of his arrest last year, a prosecutor called the allegations again Jacquard “incredibly disturbing.” The court case against him was dismissed in April because of a lack of evidence, according to a report.

 According to the Salem News, Jacquard, who was arrested Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 by Endicott College campus police, was ordered held without bail on charges that include two counts of burglary and a charge of disorderly conduct

Following is the Salem News account of last year’s initial court hearing:

“(Jacquard) has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges, and his attorney said the case hinges on a shaky identification of his client.

“Two of the incidents at Endicott College occurred on Nov. 8, prosecutor Michael Dulany told Judge Carol-Ann Fraser.

“Campus police were called to the Ledge House dormitory shortly before 3 a.m., where a young woman woke up to find a man she did not know standing at the foot of her bed. The man then fled.

“A few hours later, police took a report from another student who said she had seen a man fitting the same description inside another dormitory, Birchmont Hall, at around 4 a.m., and that he ran away when confronted.

“A third student later reported that on Nov. 10, as she was getting ready for bed, she saw a man looking into her dorm room window at Standish Hall.

“Surveillance video from cameras around the campus showed a man matching the descriptions walking around.

“On Nov. 16, days after campus police released a description of the suspect to students and staff, an officer stationed at Misselwood, a campus function hall on Hale Street, spotted the suspect.

“Jacquard told campus police he was there to visit a friend named ‘Joe,’ but could not provide further details. The officers, who did not yet have enough evidence to charge him, ordered him not to return to campus and dropped him off at a commuter rail stop.

“They got an arrest warrant last week.

 “Dulany gave Fraser a series of police reports detailing numerous other incidents, including Jacquard’s arrest in May 2017 on a disorderly conduct charge, after he was found outside Stone-Davis Hall, a Wellesley College dormitory. He was later found not guilty of that charge.

“However, he has a history of convictions for lewd conduct, including incidents outside at least one other dormitory, and is currently listed by the Sex Offender Registry Board as a Level 2 offender, deemed at moderate risk of re-offending.

“He completed a year of probation for two counts of lewd and lascivious conduct in June, following an incident in 2016 outside a Boston University dormitory. Witnesses said Jacquard was parked illegally by a hydrant outside a Bay State Road dormitory, and was seen by two women masturbating and looking at them.

“The car was leased to Jacquard through Uber, the ride-sharing service, for which Jacquard was working at the time.

“At the time, he was already a Level 1 offender based on convictions in Somerville for similar offenses in 2014.

“He is currently still on probation for similar incidents in Boston and in Somerville, where he was charged in 2015 with parking behind the Davis Square MBTA station and near a park and engaging in lewd acts. He also served probation in two 2014 incidents in Somerville as well, according to court records.

“Jacquard’s court-appointed lawyer, Tom Pierce, argued that his client has no history of defaults, and that if the judge were to set bail in the Endicott case, his client would still remain in custody on the warrants. He also stressed Jacquard’s ties to Massachusetts, where he grew up in the Lowell area and graduated from Community Christian Academy. Jacquard’s mother was present for Monday’s hearing.

“Pierce also questioned the strength of the case, saying it’s based solely on identifications of his client from video surveillance images.

“Dulany argued that Jacquard’s behavior is escalating and that no conditions of release could assure the safety of the public, pointing out that Jacquard was on probation, under supervision, and still allegedly committed new charges.

“‘There’s nothing this court can do to control this defendant’s behavior,’ said Dulany.

“Fraser agreed, ordering Jacquard detained without bail for 120 days or until his trial, whichever comes first,” the report continued.

Fox 25 News reported that Jacquard’s criminal history includes at least 23 arraignments and approximately 10 convictions for lewd and lascivious behavior, and open and gross lewdness.

A former prosecutor who now represents victims of sex crimes told Fox 25 that unless there are repercussions for his acts, Jacquard will likely continue to offend.