Marblehead man charged with rape, recording victim

MARBLEHEAD – A District Court judge ordered a Marblehead man held without bail Tuesday until his return to court Friday for a public dangerousness hearing after police charged him with rape and unlawful wiretapping.Harry Noyes, 53, of 67 Evans Road, pleaded innocent to rape and wiretapping charges after Marblehead Police Officer Colin Coleman and Sgt. Sean Brady described incidents recounted by Noyes and the female victim in police reports filed in court.Coleman in his report stated he interviewed the victim on Sunday who said Noyes confronted her shortly after midnight Sunday while she was trying to sleep with accusations “that she does drugs in her office.”Noyes, according to the report, confronted the woman again at 1 a.m. and played what he described to the victim as a recording of “somebody doing drugs.” Two hours later, the victim told police Noyes returned to the bedroom and “pinned her down for sex” after she told him twice she did not want to have sex with him.Noyes in an interview with Brady claimed he and the victim engaged in consensual sex. Noyes told Brady he used “hidden recording devices” to tape the victim and Noyes told Brady the victim did not know she was being recorded. Brady indicated in the report that Noyes allowed him to listen to the recordings before Brady took three Olympus digital recorders into police custody.Noyes told Brady the recordings chronicled incidents of drug use and told Brady, according to a police report filed in court, that the victim “was trying to set him up and take his money.”Coleman and Brady stated in their reports that the victim previously took a court restraining order out against Noyes. The victim told Coleman, according to the officer’s report, that Noyes’ “behavior has been erratic” since 2010 “when he (Noyes) started doing drugs.” She said Noyes installed a global positioning device in her car “so that he can track where she is at all times.”She told Coleman she feared Noyes and stated, according to the report, that Noyes had non-consensual sex with her on six previous occasions with the most recent prior to Tuesday occurring more than six months ago.Court records on Tuesday listed Noyes as a self-employed fisherman.Thor Jourgensen can be reached at [email protected].