Massachusetts- from www.salemnews.com – BEVERLY — Prosecutors are in the process of getting indictments against a Gloucester man who allegedly solicited explicit videos from young women for a purported “contest.”
Evans “Roddy” Dick III, 57, was arraigned yesterday in Salem District Court on a new charge of annoying or accosting a person of the opposite sex. A prosecutor said Dick’s case is about to be presented to a grand jury.
Dick is already being held without bail on similar charges in Gloucester, where he is accused of repeatedly contacting a 16-year-old girl and a 19-year-old woman, urging them to submit explicit videos.
“This is not someone we want out in our community and not someone we want near our children,” prosecutor Colleen Cashman told a judge, urging him to set high cash bail for Dick just in case his status changes in Gloucester.
Cashman said that on the evening of June 4, Beverly police got a call from a “frantic” woman who said a man in a green car was handing out pornography to kids.
When police got there, the green Chevy was gone, but the caller had provided a plate number that turned out to be attached to Dick’s 1994 Chevy Caprice.
The woman, 20, showed police a packet that offered her a chance to enter a “$1,000 modeling contest” for girls between 12 and 18. “Do not dilly-dally,” the packet said. “Come one, come all.”
Dick used the name “Ed Powers” (the name of a well-known director of hard-core pornography) in the packet, but included his own Gloucester address.
When the woman told him she was too old, at 20, he said it did not matter because she was pretty.
Inside the packet, the woman found a DVD titled “Dirty Debutantes” and a seven-page, sexually explicit letter inviting her to make a video of herself and send it to him. He included suggestions for various types of sexual activity, Cashman said.
Cashman said police were immediately concerned that Dick was targeting minors.
Heidi Shore, a lawyer representing Dick yesterday, said her client once worked in the financial services industry until becoming disabled. She said Dick has no ability to post any bail.
Judge Robert Cornetta ordered Dick held on $10,000 cash bail.
Dick is due back in court on Sept. 3.