Dumari Shakur Scarlett-Dixon, Unlawful Possession of Firearm, Massachusetts 2023

Grimy Times has learned that Dumari Shakur Scarlett-Dixon, a 22-year-old Boston man, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition while under house arrest.

On October 2023, Scarlett-Dixon pleaded guilty to being an unlawful drug user in possession of a firearm and ammunition. This is a serious offense, as Scarlett-Dixon was already on pre-trial release for four separate unlawful possession of a firearm cases in state court.

As part of an investigation into violent crime in Boston, a Snapchat account was intercepted through a court order in 2021. Among the communications intercepted was a group “chat” comprised of members of rival gangs who regularly displayed images and videos of themselves in possession of firearms. Scarlett-Dixon, a member of Heath Street, a violent Boston gang, participated in the group chat.

At the time he was intercepted, Scarlett-Dixon was on pre-trial release for those offenses and was placed on home confinement with GPS monitoring at his grandmother’s residence in Weymouth. However, Scarlett-Dixon displayed images of himself on Snapchat in possession of firearms at his grandmother’s residence, violating the terms of his release.

During a September 2021 search of Scarlett-Dixon’s grandmother’s residence, a Bersa 9-millimeter semi-automatic pistol, 59 rounds of 9 millimeter and .380 caliber ammunition, and blunts of marijuana were seized from Scarlett-Dixon’s bedroom.

As a condition of his supervised release, Scarlett-Dixon was ordered to stay away from Heath Street gang members and the Bromley Heath housing development.

Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy, James M. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Boston Division, and Stephen Belleau, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Division, made the announcement.

The operation was conducted as part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Strike Force Initiative, which provides for the establishment of permanent multi-agency task force teams that work side-by-side in the same location.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/gang-member-who-posed-snapchat-firearms-sentenced-over-two-years-prison