Court documents obtained by the Globe, which include descriptions of interviews and other evidence collected by investigators, reveal how he allegedly lured teenage girls to his apartment, offering them drugs, alcohol, and money in return for sex acts. More charges may follow. Rivera pleaded not guilty to the charges at his arraignment in Essex County Superior Court on July 19 and is being held without bail. A Globe reporter requested the files at Lawrence District Court on July 2, and a clerk handed them over.
Essex County officials later said the documents were released prematurely. The records were initially supposed to remain impounded until Aug.
They have since been re-impounded until Sept. A toxicology screening performed during the autopsy indicated the year-old tested positive for cocaine and fentanyl, the affidavit states.
According to interviews in the affidavit, Rivera video-recorded his assaults on the teen girls he lured to his first-floor apartment at 59 Bellevue St. A mechanic by trade, according to investigators, Rivera also allegedly sold drugs, such as fentanyl, pills, cocaine, and marijuana, a woman told police.
In her interview, she also accused Rivera of attempting to sexually assault her and of raping one of her friends. Girls would frequent his apartment for a bottle of alcohol, she said, and he would demand a sex act in return. In the interview, the woman said Rivera would supply her with alcohol, drugs, and money when she was younger, and in exchange, she would allow him to perform oral sex on her.
