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Lyndon Scott: Charged in shooting while out on bail on assault rap.
The internal BPD report obtained by the Herald presents more than a dozen examples in which police busted reputed gangbangers, only to see them back on the streets because of bureaucratic snafus and crackdowns on cop pay to appear in court.
Cordell McAfee, 20, an alleged member of the Columbia Road gang, was busted on charges of having a gun in Grove Hall in Roxbury. The arresting officers were never summonsed to Roxbury court for pretrials hearings, and the case against McAfee was eventually dismissed.
In March, cops arrested three reputed members of the notorious Orchard Park gang for allegedly robbing a member of the Roxbury Boys and Girls Club with a gun as the youth went to the store.
The suspects, Lyndon Scott, 18, Kevin Crutchfield, 20, and DaShawn Matthews, 17, were identified by the victim and arrested for assault and battery, according to Boston police reports. A fake firearm allegedly used in the robbery was recovered from Crutchfield, the report states. But officers were never summonsed for the pretrial hearing, and the suspects, who were not charged with armed robbery, were released on bail.
All three have been arrested since for violent crimes, according to the BPD internal report. Scott was charged with a recent shooting; Marshall with gun possession; and Matthews with intimidation of a witness stemming from the shooting Scott is charged with, according to the report.
Larrell Pratt, 18, identified by police as a member of the Academy Home gang, was arrested in February after he allegedly witnessed a homicide and refused to cooperate with investigators. During the execution of a warrant, Pratt allegedly spit in the face of the arresting officers and kicked one of them in the groin.
Cops were not called to a pretrial hearing, according to the report, and the case was repeatedly continued until Pratt pleaded guilty to lesser charges on Sept. 20 and was sentenced to serve just 60 days behind bars. Pratt got a stay on his sentence until two days after Christmas, prosecutors said.
This isn't limited to Boston. It's state wide in the great Commonwealth.
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