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Date: 4/25/2022
BELCHERTOWN – On April 21, Belchertown Police Lt. Michael Beaupre was arraigned in Eastern Hampshire District Court on 11 counts of unlawful wiretap and 10 counts of photographing an unsuspecting person in the nude, according to the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office Director of Communication Lindsay Corcoran.
Prior to his arraignment, the Belchertown Police Department said Beaupre was on unpaid leave, and by press time, his status had not changed.
In the report, filed by Massachusetts State Police Worcester Homicide Squad Sgt. Matthew Prescott, he said one of the victims found a thumb drive containing graphic sexual videos of herself and other women, recorded without their consent, in Beaupre’s Pelham home on Jan. 21. The victim brought the thumb drive to police on Jan. 26.
“‘Victim 1AA’ indicated that Beaupre had asked her several times in the past if he could record their sexual activities, however she emphatically said no. She further indicated that she never consented to, nor was she aware that she was being recorded,” he wrote.
Prescott said following an initial look at the thumb drive, it was placed into evidence before he received a search warrant on Feb. 2 from Worcester Superior Court Justice Gavin Reardon, at which time he attached the thumb drive to his computer.
“We examined the case and observed approximately 60 folders labeled with women’s names. We also observed approximately 30 digital images and videos that were not in folders. Of the 60 folders, we were able to locate 13 folders with videos that were consistent with surreptitious recordings,” he wrote.
Seven victims were identified in the report, dating to January 2017, in each case Prescott wrote, “The victim never gave consent nor was she aware that she was being recorded.”
Prescott identified from the videos that the women were being recorded from several different locations, including a recording device on a bedside table labeled, “view number 1”, another device situated across the room from the first one, “view number 2,” and a third in the downstairs living room.
He also detailed the situation for each victim, beginning with Victim 1AA.
“The folder that was associated with ‘Victim 1AA,’ the reporting party in this case, contained 45 total videos consistent with surreptitious recording. All of the videos included audio with clearly discernible words, conversations and noises,” he wrote. “Most of these videos graphically depicted the victim and Beaupre in various stages of nudity and engaging in sexual activity with genital, buttocks and breast exposed.”
In the case of Victim 2VL, Prescott said no sexual activity was recorded in the one video on the drive, but her conversation with Beaupre was recorded without consent.
Victim 3LB contained the largest number of videos of any of the victims.
“A folder which was labeled and later determined to be associated with ‘Victim 3LB’ was observed to contain 122 total videos consistent with surreptitious recording, 86 of them were ‘view number 1’ and depicted the victim and Beaupre naked with exposed genitals, buttocks and breast and graphically engaging in sexual activity,” he wrote.
For the remaining four victims identified in the report, the folder for Victim 4AF contained 23 videos, the folder for Victim 5CB contained 115 videos, the folder for Victim 6AL contained eight videos and the folder for Victim 7TT contained 34 videos. While not all the videos depicted sexual activity, many did, and others included recorded audio without the victims’ consent.
Each count for unlawful wiretapping carries a maximum prison sentence of five years or two and a half years in a house of correction with a maximum fine of $10,000. For each count of photographing an unsuspecting nude person, the sentence carries a maximum of two and a half years or a maximum of a $5,000 fine.
Corcoran said Beaupre’s bail is set at $5,000 and there is a stay away/no-contact order from the victims. He is set to appear in court again on June 14.