A chilly case homicide over angel mud in Southie has resulted within the arrest of a 61-year-old in a slaying tied to serial killer James “Whitey” Bulger.
Michael Lewis was arrested in South Boston by Boston Police on Friday. He will probably be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on Tuesday for first-degree homicide. He is charged with capturing Brian Watson, 23, in July 1984. Lewis was 24 on the time of the homicide.
“This was a true team effort to help indict and charge a homicide that hearkens back to a very different Boston. Brian Watson was a young father cut down seemingly on a whim. A remarkably cold-blooded whim,” Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden stated.
Watson’s decomposed physique was discovered virtually 4 many years in the past alongside Interstate 93 in Manchester, N.H. He was finally recognized by dental information.
Watson was final seen alive on July 16 or 17 of 1984. His mom filed a lacking individual report with Boston Police on July 28, 1984.
Authorities stated Friday night time that Watson was shot and killed in South Boston whereas two suspects lured him right into a automobile whereas making an attempt to tie one other man to dealing angel mud within the metropolis. The hallucinogenic drug — additionally know as PCP — was well-liked on the time.
The DA stated the homicide was tied to Bulger as a result of the mobster wished a lower of any sale of angel mud in Southie.
Prosecutors allege that Lewis and one other man, each of whom had been concerned within the South Boston drug commerce, had been driving on July 16 or 17 in South Boston in quest of one other drug supplier.
Their goal was to cease that supplier from working in South Boston, the DA stated. The second man was offended on the supplier as a result of the supplier had informed Bulger and Bulger muscle Kevin Weeks that he, the second man, was dealing angel mud in South Boston. As a consequence, Bulger demanded $5,000 instantly from the second man, adopted by $1,000 per week.
A grand jury on Friday returned a first-degree homicide indictment in opposition to Lewis.
“We hope that this significant development brings Brian Watson’s loved ones one step closer to justice and closure,” stated New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella. “We cannot say enough about how grateful we are to have such strong regional law enforcement partnerships, from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office and Boston Police Department, to our New Hampshire State Police and Manchester Police Department.”
Information developed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston offered a big break within the case in 2009, however nonetheless not sufficient to safe an indictment.
Further info developed by investigators this yr offered adequate proof to maneuver ahead with Friday’s indictment of Lewis, the DA’s workplace stated.
A wheelchair-bound Bulger was brutally murdered — his eyes gouged out — in a West Virginia jail in October 2018. He was 89 years previous and his kin, together with former UMass and Senate president William “Billy” Bulger, are suing the federal jail system for $200 million.
Weeks was launched from federal jail in early 2005. His exploits operating with Bulger have been was books through the years.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”