A former Boston public faculty legit who recruited at-risk scholars into the Latin Kings gang and had the scholars distribute medication on campus pleaded in charge to racketeering fees on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts mentioned.
The former legit, Shaun Harrison, 63, faces 218 months, or greater than 18 years, in jail beneath the plea settlement, which was once made in a case that centered dozens of participants of the Latin Kings. Mr. Harrison is lately serving a jail sentence for looking to kill one of the most scholars, whom he shot at the back of the top at point-blank vary.
Mr. Harrison was once employed to function an educational dean at English High School in Boston in 2015, months sooner than the taking pictures. He labored with households to lend a hand suffering scholars and ran an anger-management program for 10 boys on the faculty, the use of his place to recruit “a number of the at-risk students” into the group, prosecutors mentioned.
Mr. Harrison, referred to as “Rev” or “King Rev,” directed the scholars he recruited to promote marijuana and different medication, which he supplied, at the highschool, prosecutors mentioned.
“This former high school dean and self-professed anti-violence advocate was supposed to be looking out for the best interests of his students, when in reality he was living a double life as a Latin King, engaging in violence while recruiting at-risk students to traffic drugs and further the insidious needs of the gang,” Joseph R. Bonavolonta, particular agent in command of the F.B.I.’s Boston administrative center, mentioned in a commentary.
Four of the scholars whom Mr. Harrison recruited have been charged within the federal case towards participants and co-workers of the Latin Kings and feature each and every gained jail sentences of between 21 months and 32 months. Mr. Harrison is the sixtieth particular person to plead in charge within the Latin Kings case, prosecutors mentioned.
In December 2019, greater than 500 federal, state and native regulation enforcement officials arrested and charged dozens of leaders and participants of the Latin Kings within the Northeast on racketeering, drug conspiracy and firearms fees. Two different defendants are nonetheless sought after on federal arrest warrants.
A sentencing listening to for Mr. Harrison is scheduled for Nov. 15. His rate beneath the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, carries a sentence of as much as twenty years in jail, 3 years of supervised liberate and a $250,000 positive.
A attorney for Mr. Harrison declined to remark.
Separately, Mr. Harrison was once ordered on Friday to pay $10 million in damages to the coed he had recruited to distribute medication and attempted to kill, Luis Rodriguez.
In March 2015, Mr. Harrison got here to consider that Mr. Rodriguez had stolen cash from him and that he may inform the police concerning the drug gross sales, prosecutors mentioned.
That month, Mr. Harrison met with Mr. Rodriguez, then 17, and advised him he was once taking him to satisfy women and to a birthday party, in keeping with a lawsuit Mr. Rodriguez filed in 2019.
While they have been strolling, Mr. Harrison shot Mr. Rodriguez at the back of the top with a handgun, leaving him bleeding, however Mr. Rodriguez was once ready to flag down a passing automobile for lend a hand, the lawsuit mentioned.
Mr. Rodriguez has suffered critical emotional misery, psychiatric damage, facial scarring, facial paralysis, listening to loss and different accidents from the taking pictures, the lawsuit mentioned.
He additionally sued Boston Public Schools, however the pass judgement on brushed aside claims towards the college district. Mr. Rodriguez’s attorney has filed an enchantment towards the ruling.
Mr. Harrison was once sentenced in June 2018 to as much as 26 years in jail on attack and different fees for the taking pictures. He persisted to go together with different participants of the Latin Kings in jail, together with to check out to spot who contributed to his conviction, prosecutors mentioned on Tuesday.
In 2016, whilst anticipating trial for the taking pictures, Mr. Harrison denied that he lived a double lifestyles in an interview with an area tv station, WHDH.
“I never, never sold drugs, I never sold guns, never turned kids into gang members,” he advised the station. “Me? I would not even know how to do that.”
