Jury finds Alvin Campbell guilty of raping women while working as an Uber driver in Boston

Alvin Campell has been convicted of raping several women he picked up outside Boston bars while posing as an Uber driver.

Prosecutors say over a nearly three-year period Campbell targeted drunk women outside bars until he was arrested in 2020. The evidence in the case hinged on videos Campbell filmed of himself assaulting the women.

The jury deliberated for about a week before returning a guilty verdict for 21 of the 22 charges against Campbell in the seven alleged assaults in the case. The decision came back Thursday afternoon.

Prosecutor Lynn Feigenbaum told jurors in closing arguments that Campbell had a plan for when he went out late at night in his black SUV: "Pick up a very intoxicated woman, film her while she's naked and unsuspecting, have her wake up in a place where she's vulnerable, confused and ignorant of the violence that she suffered, and then act like the nice guy to distort reality."

Campbell's defense attorney insisted any of the sex was consensual, and that the women may have been drunk, but they weren't too incapacitated to consent.

Boston police were first made aware of Campbell in 2017, when two women who were living together reported that he raped them. Prosecutors took the case to a grand jury, but withdrew it before jurors could decide whether to issue an indictment, because they feared they didn't have enough evidence.

He wasn't arrested until three years later, in January 2020, after a woman reported to Boston police that Campbell had sexually assaulted her. Prosecutors say Campbell posed as an Uber driver and picked the woman up outside the Harp bar near North Station. Prosecutors say instead of driving her to her North End home, he sexually assaulted her in his car and then drove her to his apartment in Cumberland, Rhode Island.

She made her way back to Boston and went to the hospital for a sexual assault exam and reported the crime to police.

When Boston police detectives later searched Campbell's phone, they made the horrifying discovery that he had filmed himself assaulting at least six other women, including the roommates from 2017. For the others, who had never reported the crime to police, detectives set out to identify and inform them one by one.

" For some of these women, the call served simply to confirm something they had long suspected was true: that something bad had happened to them on a night that they couldn't fully remember," prosecutor Erin Murphy told jurors during the trial's opening statements.

Alvin Campbell faced 22 counts including aggravated rape, kidnapping, indecent assault and battery and photographing an unsuspecting nude person.

Campbell is the estranged brother of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell. She has said she is "praying for the survivors and all those affected" by her brother's actions.

A sentencing hearing was scheduled for June 29.