---
category: Organized Crime
created: 2026-04-28
relations:
- fn: 1
  role: president
  type: head_of
  with: '[[Jet Spray Corporation]]'
summary: Massachusetts industrialist, president of Jet Spray Corporation and a former
  part owner of the New England Patriots, charged in the Troop 137 case in 1976, who
  forfeited a 50,000-dollar bond to avoid trial in Louisiana.
tags:
- Person
- ChildAbuse
- Massachusetts
updated: 2026-09-22
---

Richard C. Jacobs, 41, of Waltham, Massachusetts, was president of the Jet Spray Corporation, with corporate offices in Brookline and subsidiaries around the world, and, according to press reports reprinted in the 1977 House hearing, a part owner of the New England Patriots. Boston-area police arrested him and the realtor [Hugh Scott Mellor](/people/hugh-mellor/) at the request of Louisiana authorities; both were charged with conspiracy to commit homosexual rape and aggravated crimes against nature in the case of [New Orleans](/places/new-orleans/) Boy Scout [Troop 137](/organizations/troop-137/), organized by [Richard Halvorsen](/people/richard-halvorsen/) and [Raymond Woodall](/people/raymond-woodall/). By May 1977 New Orleans police said Jacobs had forfeited a 50,000-dollar bond to avoid standing trial in Louisiana.[^1]

[^1]: Wright, Marilyn. *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1976-1977, and *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, both reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977, pp. 439-443. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041