Massachusetts Cop, Indicted On 2022 Hampton NH Rape Charges, Suspended: Report

HAMPTON, NH — A police officer from Central Massachusetts has been suspended by the state after being accused of raping a woman on New Hampshire’s Seacoast in May 2022, according to MassLive.com.

Dylan Bryant, 29, of Halford Street in Gardner, MA, was indicted by a Rockingham County Superior Court grand jury in March on two aggravated felonious sexual assault charges. He was accused of raping and sodomizing a woman, now 30, when she was physically helpless to resist, on or about May 28 to May 30, 2022. Bryant was never arrested; the charges went straight to indictments in mid-March. He was arraigned in superior court on April 21.

On May 22, according to court documents, the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission requested documents from the case since, at the time, Bryant was a police officer with the Gardner MA Police Department. He was suspended by the state sometime in June, the organization said Thursday. Bryant confirmed his prior employment with the department with a journalist for the MassLive.com story.

The commission, nicknamed POST, was created as part of the Bay State’s criminal just reform implemented about three years ago.

Bryant is due back in court on Aug. 1 for a dispositional conference.

To read more about this report, visit MassLive.com.

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