Pizza delivery or not, Douglas Tower was heading to jail yesterday.

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Within hours of being indicted Friday by a grand jury on 53 charges, including raping 10 women under his supervision, the former state corrections sergeant allegedly violated terms of his bail by delivering pizza pies to the State Prison for Women in Goffstown.

Assistant Attorney General Charles Keefe said he filed a motion in Merrimack County Superior Court yesterday to revoke Tower's bail and make him ineligible to go free at least until he is arraigned May 17.

Tower already was in a Merrimack County Jail cell yesterday morning, however, because Gilberti Bail Bondsman decided Friday's indictments turned him into an extreme flight risk.

Bail enforcement agents Lance Wilkinson, left, and Hadley Dorfman, right, hold Douglas Tower of Goffstown after he was apprehended in Dunbarton yesterday. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Bail enforcement agent Lance Wilkinson said he tracked Tower down in Dunbarton yesterday morning.

Merrimack County Superior Court Judge Kathleen McGuire granted Gilberti's motion to rescind Tower's bail, and Wilkinson took him to the Merrimack County Jail before noon.

Wilkinson said Tower admitted to delivering the pizzas Friday night, saying it was a part-time job and he didn't think doing so would be viewed as a violation of bail. It was not clear what restaurant was employing Tower or to whom the pizzas were to be delivered.

"Pretty stupid, huh?" said Wilkinson. "I told him, 'If Jesus Christ told me to deliver those pizzas I would have said no.'"

Keefe said a condition of Tower's bail included having no contact with current or former Department of Corrections employees or inmates.

"It is somewhat common for a defendant to have prohibited contact while they're on bail," said Keefe. "But in terms of the specifics of this case, I have never faced a scenario exactly like this," he said, referring to Tower's pizza delivery.

Wilkinson went with fellow bounty hunters Hadley and Greg Dorfman to Tower's home in Goffstown yesterday morning, but the former prison guard wasn't there. Tower put up no resistance when the three men later found him in Dunbarton, said Wilkinson.

Once they got to the jail parking lot, Wilkinson said Tower broke down sobbing and said he "wouldn't make it through the night," prompting the bounty hunters to recommend he be put on a suicide watch.

Jail officials yesterday confirmed Tower was incarcerated but refused to discuss whether he was there under any special conditions.

Keefe said Tower will remain eligible for bail if the court doesn't grant his motion to revoke. But Wilkinson said "nobody's going to touch him" with so many charges pending.

Gilberti Bail Bondsman went after Tower yesterday, said Wilkinson, precisely because the company found out the state was readying its motion to revoke bail. When defendants hear that, he said, they often go into hiding.

"We got a jump on it," said Wilkinson.

Tower initially was arrested in January and had been free on $50,000 bail since Jan. 13.

He was indicted Friday by a Merrimack County grand jury on 53 charges, including 14 counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, four counts of felonious sexual assault and 16 counts of misdemeanor sexual assault.

He also faces a class action lawsuit filed by three former female inmates who allege he repeatedly raped them. The suit was filed on behalf of 125 former inmates at Shea Farm, a halfway house for women in Concord.

Tower is expected to be arraigned May 17 in Merrimack County Superior Court.