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Fugitive on MSP's Most Wanted list found hiding in drawer

A man featured on Massachusetts State Police’s Most Wanted list has been captured after police found him hiding in a bedroom drawer.

State and local authorities conducted a raid on a home on Empire Street in Lynn around 7:30 p.m., and investigators said they located the suspect, Steven C. Touch, 28, hiding inside a drawer that had been built into a bed frame.

Touch was described as the leader of a violent gang known as the Young Bloods. He had been wanted for his role in a deadly home invasion in July 2012.

Investigators said he and two other men broke down the door to a woman’s home in Billerica.

When her 22-year-old grandson, Quintin Kohler, confronted the intruders, they shot him in the neck.

Touch's lawyer says it's unfair he was ever put on the most wanted list.

"I've represented Mr. Touch on a number of different cases charges and allegations, no one has ever presented to me any evidence that this is a leader of a gang," said defense attorney John Morris.

The three men were indicted last June for that killing, and two other men had been arrested.

But Touch remained on the run until his arrest Tuesday night.

Touch was arraigned on Wednesday and is held without bail.