Overview
- Prosecutors charged 27-year-old Edward J. Brown with a single count of rape after an alleged incident inside a Massachusetts State Police barracks on Martha’s Vineyard in August.
- Court records and an arraignment recording state that Good Samaritans found the woman naked and screaming outside the barracks and took her to a hospital where police later interviewed her.
- Boston and Oak Bluffs officers arrested Brown at Boston Latin Academy, where he worked as an assistant security director for Boston Public Schools, according to the arraignment record.
- Arresting officers allegedly found white powder believed to be cocaine on Brown at the time of his arrest, a detail prosecutors noted at the arraignment.
- Brown pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Edgartown District Court and the case is under active criminal investigation while the accused’s lawyer and Boston Public Schools have not yet commented.