Man fresh off a sentence for attempting to hire a murderer cut out the middleman and tried to gun down somebody in Roxbury last month, police say

Boston Police report the arrest of a former Dorchester resident they say shot a man on Clifford Street in Roxbury last month - his latest arrest in a long career of crime in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Police say Dekara Anderson, 49, was arrested in Nashua, NH - where he may have been living after completing a 5-to-10 year sentence for dealing coke and attempting to hire somebody to murder an informant he thought had ratted him out.

Boston Police obtained an arrest warrant for Anderson on July 29 for a shooting around 1 a.m. on July 9 at Clifford Street and Blue Hill Avenue.

The warrant charged Anderson with assault to murder a victim 60 or older, assault and battery with a firearm, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, illegal possession of a firearm, second offense, illegal possession of a loaded firearm, illegal possession of ammunition and being a Level 3 armed career criminal. The armed-career-criminal charge would mean a longer sentence if he is convicted of the other offenses.

In October, 2012, Anderson was serving a seven-year sentence for coke dealing when he was released because the drug evidence in his case had been inspected by disgraced state chemist Annie Dookhan.

Just seven months later, Framingham Police charged him with crack dealing after detaining him for a fight and then finding a plastic bag full of crack in his buttocks. A Middlesex Superior Court judge barred the use of the drugs as evidence - because they were found during an unconstitutional and warrantless strip search - but he still faced a charge of resisting arrest.

In 2014 a judge ordered him released him on time served - the 459 days he had been locked up pending the disposition of his case. He seemed to be trying to turn things around - he enrolled in a 21-week culinary-arts program and began dreaming of opening his own catering business, according to an account by a Globe columnist of a 2016 reunion between the judge and Anderson at a Seaport banquet by a group helping to give released convicts a second chance.

Innocent, etc.