An 80-year-old Haverhill accountant pleaded guilty in Essex Superior Court Friday to charges of maintaining a house of prostitution, and possession with intent to distribute charges for suboxone, gabapentin, and marijuana, as well as a fentanyl possession charge.

“I am embarrassed and I am very sorry,” John Caruso told the judge after entering his plea.

Police started investigating Caruso after a young woman overdosed in his River Street accounting office on Jan. 8, 2024. Prosecutors say that investigators determined that from at least June 2021 through February of 2024, Caruso was paying women with money and drugs to have sex with him and other men. He operated it all from his accounting office in a building he owned.

Judge Elizabeth Dunigan sentenced Caruso to three years and one day in state prison to be followed by two years of probation. Caruso will have to register as a sex offender and submit to drug screenings.

Prosecutor Jessica Strasnick read victim impact statements in court. One person wrote of the “atrocities committed” by Caruso and stated, “He has destroyed many lives and has profited from others’ misery.”

Mass and Cass is cracked

The open drug dealing continues in the Boston’s Mass and Cass area, as police say they recovered 19 bags of crack, seven of which also contained fentanyl, from a suspected drug dealer.

Luis Martinez Agramonte, 25, of Dorchester, faces multiple firearm and drug possession and distribution charges after Boston Police Department officers arrested him Friday morning.

Police say that the citywide Neighborhood Engagement Safety Team was conducting a check in the 700-block of Albany Street, which is part of Boston’s infamous Mass and Cass corridor, when they observed the telltale signs of a drug deal. Officers approached and arrested Agramonte before he could escape on an electric bicycle, according to a BPD statement.

Officers searched him and say they found 12 packets of suspected crack cocaine and seven more packets that had fentanyl mixed in. They say they also found a firearm they are calling a “ghost gun,” which means it’s unable to be tracked either by being homemade or by having its serial number filed off, loaded with 9mm ammunition and an undisclosed amount of cash they believe to be drug proceeds.

The alleged purchaser in the purported crack deal, 46-year-old Keith Bradford of Dorchester, faces a single charge of possession of a Class B drug.

Incident Summary

BPD responded to 249 incidents in the 24-hour period ending at 10 a.m. Saturday, according to the department’s incident log. Those included one robbery, four aggravated assaults, one residential burglary, one theft from a vehicle, one vehicle theft, and 21 instances of miscellaneous larceny.

Arrests

All of the below-named defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

— Khadafi Bastien, 39 Boylston St., Boston. Warrant arrest.

— Marc Cheek, 170 Morton St., Jamaica Plain. Warrant arrest.

— Luis Agramonte, 162 Quincy St., Dorchester. Carrying a firearm without a license.

— Keith Bradford, 3 Lorenzo St., Dorchester. Possession of Class B drugs.

— Altair Marta, 406 Meridian St., East Boston. Shoplifting.

— Branden Stallings, 820 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. Larceny more than $250.

— Zachary Scott, 288 Scudder Ave., Hyannis. External warrant arrest.

— Eden Jacques, 16 Kensington St., Roxbury. Carrying a dangerous weapon.

— Ernesto Ramirez, 11 Congress Ave., Chelsea. Possession of Class C drugs.

— Jamie Cooper, no address listed. Operating a motor vehicle under the influence of drugs.

— Erik Saarinen, 1145 Washington St., Boston. Possession of Class E drugs.

— Charles Deas, 50 Willowood St., Dorchester. Possession of Class B drugs.

— Nathaniel Bean, 5 Linda Lane, Dorchester. Assault on family or household member.

— Dominic Dove, 25 Medford St., Chelsea. Shoplifting.

— Janese Taylor, 4 Old Treasure Way, West Harwich. Shoplifting more than $100.

— Denise Komnenus, 8 Richard St., Saugus. Possession of Class A drugs.