A man who was shot to death last week in Dorchester’s Meetinghouse Hill section has been identified by police as 20-year-old Kareem Daveiga-Booth of Brighton. He was found suffering from a gunshot wound last Tuesday evening around 7:20 p.m. at 73 Ridgewood St., from which he was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. No arrests have been reported in what was the first homicide of the year in Dorchester, according to BPD reports. Police ask anyone who can assist detectives to call 1-800-494-TIPS.
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A man who later told police he had been hit from behind drove his car into a house at 167 Woodrow Ave. in Dorchester around 2:15 a.m. on Monday, according to Universal Hub. The driver, who was able to get out of his vehicle and stay on scene, told officers that the hit forced him to run into and then under the house’s porch. The other driver did not stick around. ISD was asked to check the house’s structural integrity.
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A 32-year-old Dorchester man who has admitted to his role in a violent Boston gang H-Block pled guilty in federal court to drug conspiracy charges last week. Avery Lewis admitted to distributing cocaine and will be sentenced in May. He faces a longer term, up to 20 years in prison, as prosecutors say he already has prior convictions for cocaine possession and for “unlawfully possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.”

Lewis was one of 10 alleged gang associates charged last August after a “multi-year investigation” that federal prosecutors say targeted the Roxbury-based H-Block “in response to an uptick in gang-related drug trafficking, shootings, and violence.”

Prosecutors said Lewis “sold cocaine to an undercover officer on several occasions and coordinated other drug trafficking criminal activities with H-Block gang members.” He is the first defendant to plead guilty in the case.

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Boston Police arrested a 30-year-old man last Friday morning after officers with the Drug Control Units executed a search warrant at a residence at 190 Fairmount St. The raid, part of an “ongoing narcotics investigation,” led to the recovery of “a loaded Springfield XD-9 firearm, 33.8 grams of cocaine, cutting agents, digital scales, and packaging materials,” according to a BPD account. The man they arrested, Barley Lamour, was the “target of the investigation,” police said. He will face charges for cocaine trafficking and illegal gun possession, police said.
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Boston Police last week warned that a scammer using a “legitimate Boston Police Department phone number” was targeting people to “demand funds be sent via MoneyGram or Western Union,” which police called “a tell-tale sign of a fraud.” Police advised anyone targeted with such a call to “hang up the phone,” note the phone number, and report it to the department.