A federal judge yesterday sentenced Keiarri "Kemo" Dyette, 26, to 42 months in federal prison for his role in the Cameron Street gang, which included beating a member of the rival Wendover Street gang bloody with a gun and selling guns to a man who turned out to be working for the feds, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.

A Weymouth man who was rounded up in a February sweep of alleged members of the gang that has long terrorized residents in and around the Mildred Hailey Apartments pleaded guilty this week - not to being a member of a criminal gang but to lying on an application for a Covid-related loan aimed at helping small businesses about whether he was facing any criminal charges at the time, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

A federal judge yesterday sentenced Kenny Romero to 7 1/4 years - 87 months - in federal prison for violating the RICO law and for selling cocaine and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition - 63 months for the charges to which he'd pleaded guilty and another 24 months for doing all that while on probation for an earlier gun-possession charge. Read more.

An AARP mailing to a 51-year-old South End man with a criminal record dating to the 1990s helped investigators tie him to the loaded gun and separate box of ammo they found in a Harrison Archway apartment in February while searching for another man believed to be a Heath Street Gang member. Read more.

One alleged Heath Street gang member living with another alleged member of the gang was formally charged Friday for the drugs an ATF agent says investigators found in his room last month during a search originally aimed at the other guy as part of a sweep of some 40 alleged Heath Street members. Read more.

A one-time member of the Columbia Point Dawgs gang, who spent several years in federal prison for crack dealing and being a felon in possession of a gun faces more prison time after a federal jury convicted him of being a felon in possession of a gun again, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld the second-degree murder convictions of three men for beating and stabbing a teenager to death at Blue Hill Avenue and Wilcock Street in 2007, rejecting arguments that a juror who answered "no" to questions about relatives involved in criminal cases or the court system meant the three couldn't get a fair trial. Read more.

An alleged Morse Street gang member arrested on federal drug charges on Friday was charged today with murdering Tyler Lawrence, 13, of Norwood at Babson and Fremont streets in Mattapan on Jan. 29, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

A violence vacuum left after 61 MS-13 members were arrested in 2016 was filled by MS-13 leaders coming up from New York to re-assert the gang on the streets of East Boston and neighboring communities through murders, beatings and the recruiting of local high-school students from Central America, federal prosecutors say. Read more.