A 66-year-old Hyde Park man wanted on 18 active arrest warrants spanning strangulation, kidnapping and fraud charges was arrested Friday morning at the corner of Washington and Winter streets in Downtown Crossing. Kevin Davis now faces arraignment in Boston Municipal Court, extradition proceedings to Rhode Island, and a stack of pending cases in at least five Massachusetts courts.
The arrest happened at approximately 10 a.m. on September 4 at the busy commercial intersection, according to Patch. Boston police arrested Davis at the site, and his warrants originated from Quincy, Braintree, Cambridge, Malden, MIT Police, and the Northeastern University Police Department, per the Boston Police Department.
Officers recovered multiple credit cards and identification cards that did not belong to Davis, including a local university ID card, evidence tied to pending credit card fraud and stolen property charges across several courts, the department said. Davis is expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court, where he faces three counts of credit card fraud under $1,200 and a felony charge of breaking and entering in the daytime.
A Warrant List That Spans the Region
The Quincy District Court warrant is the most severe on Davis's docket, alleging three counts of strangulation or suffocation, kidnapping, assault and battery on a person over 60, and witness intimidation, along with four counts of violating an abuse prevention order. Separate Quincy charges add larceny from a building, two counts of credit card fraud under $1,200, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 265, Section 15D, strangulation or suffocation is charged as a standalone felony, carrying up to five years in state prison and as much as 10 years if aggravated by serious injury or an active protective-order violation, according to the Massachusetts General Laws.
The abuse-prevention-order violations Davis faces in Quincy are among the charges listed above. No additional arrest-procedure details are provided for those alleged violations.
Cambridge, Malden and Roxbury Cases Add Up
Cambridge District Court has charged Davis with larceny from a building and credit card fraud under $1,200 in one case, credit card fraud and receiving stolen property under $1,200 in another, and assault with a dangerous weapon along with trespass in a third. Malden District Court has an outstanding larceny-from-a-building charge as well.
Cases tied to Northeastern University Police included breaking and entering in the daytime for a felony, larceny from a building, improper use of a credit card under $1,200, and attempt to commit a crime. Davis was arrested in connection with two separate incidents involving breaking and entering and commercial burglaries, one in the area of Arch Street and another near Neponset Avenue.
Larceny from a building is a recurring charge across Quincy, Cambridge, Malden and Roxbury courts.
Several of Davis's warrants trace back to campus police at MIT and Northeastern University. The article does not provide further details about the authority of those university police departments.
Rhode Island Extradition Looms
Davis is wanted in Rhode Island on a third domestic violence offense and will face a criminal violence, third-offense charge in Rhode Island Superior Court. The article does not provide sentencing details for that Rhode Island charge.
Massachusetts extradition procedures are not detailed here. Davis will be extradited to Rhode Island following his Massachusetts court proceedings, though the timeline for that transfer has not been detailed.
The sources do not detail District A-1 patrol operations in the neighborhood. On September 4, Boston police ran “Operation Kickstand,” though its location and whether other targeted operations occurred are not detailed here. Downtown Crossing is a high-density shopping corridor.
