Convicted rapist accused in South End break-ins

A convicted rapist allegedly broke into South End apartments, stole property and videotaped women in the nude in a terrifying crime spree last year, according to a prosecutor.

“This was a pattern of conduct targeting women and apartments occupied by women and bracketing them as potential victims,” said Assistant District Attorney Ian Polumbaum, chief of District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Unit.

“He went to the alley behind a basement, ground-floor apartment and videotaped one of the women who lived there unclothed without her knowledge and without consent,” Polumbaum added.

Ronald Brown, 53, stood behind a door and out of sight of cameras in the seventh floor Suffolk Superior courtroom as a clerk magistrate rattled off the 19 new indictments returned by a grand jury against him. He was once listed as a Level 3 sex offender.

Brown spoke only to indicate he could hear what was happening in the courtroom, and to shout out “not guilty” 19 times after being asked to enter pleas to the charges.

Brown habitually targeted women’s apartments in a series of South End break-ins during September and October of last year, Polumbaum said.

Police arrested Brown last October on a rape charge, alleging he broke into a Clarendon Street apartment, bound the two women living there, and raped one of them.

Brown has been held without bail at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley on the rape charge, and Clerk Magistrate Edward Curley imposed a $200,000 bail for the newest charges.