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Watson’s attempted murder of a government informant will cost him 30 years. “Individuals who assist the government in investigations play an enormous role in bringing criminals to justice. This defendant’s actions and the level of violence that he exhibited were unconscionable and he will serve the next three decades in prison as a result.” Ortiz said, “Today’s sentence should send a strong message that tampering with a government informant or investigation will result in severe consequences.
DEA INFORMANT TRIAL
” and “The Paul Pierce case was the same way, but at trial he changed his statements and I got found not guilty of att. In those letters, among other things, WATSON wrote, “I had introduced my lawyer to the fact that if the victim in my case was to sign an affidavit saying I’m not the guy who stabbed him, it was some Spanish guy about 30, which I am not either, I’ll be alright. WATSON did this by writing letters and making phone calls from prison to his associates. While stabbing the informant, WATSON said, “You talking, huh? you telling.” WATSON, who had been charged with the attempted murder of Boston Celtic Paul Pierce in 2002, but was acquitted by a jury, attempted to get witnesses in this case, including the victim/informant - to change their statements to help exonerate the defendant. The informant required emergency surgery because both his colon and intestine were cut. The FBI paid approximately 294 million (FY2012-2018), the DEA paid at least 237 million (FY2011-2015), and ATF paid approximately 17.2 million total (FY2012-2015) to informants. The employee was not publicly identified except as a. 27, 2010, WATSON stabbed a DEA informant approximately 10 times outside of Ann’s Unisex Barbershop on Tremont Street in Boston’s South End. According to a report released Monday by Amtrak’s inspector general, the DEA paid an Amtrak secretary 854,460 to be an informant. 2, 2010 by a second jury for witness tampering by attempting to kill a DEA informant. What you did was to terrorize your community and attempt to murder another individual in broad daylight in an effort to put yourself beyond the law.you can run, but the law will find you.this is a just and fair sentence.”Īfter Watson’s first trial resulted in a hung jury in October 2010, Watson was convicted on Dec. Young said, “The fact is, sir, that you are a terrorist. WATSON -, 44, of Boston, was sentenced today to the statutory maximum of 30 years in prison for the 2010 attempted murder of an active DEA informant.Īt today’s sentencing, U.S. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field Division U.S Attorney Ortiz Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis and Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph D.