Crime & Safety
Murder Suspect On MSP Most Wanted List Caught
Steven Touch, suspected in a fatal 2012 home invasion in Billerica, was found hiding in a drawer built inside a bed frame.
LYNN, MA – Police Tuesday night captured a Lynn man on the Massachusetts State Police Most Wanted list for his alleged role in a fatal 2012 home invasion in Billerica. Steven Touch, an alleged gang leader, was found hiding inside a drawer built into a bed frame on Empire Street.
Touch, 28, and two co-defendants, Sophan Keo, 29, and Gabriel Arias, 24, were indicted in June 2017 for the murder of 22-year-old Quintin Koehler during a home invasion in Billerica on July 7, 2012, state police said. Keo and Arias were arrested but Touch remained at large.
He was added to the Most Wanted list last September.
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Authorities believed Touch frequently changed addresses, and received information that he was on Empire Street following an extensive search that involved local police, the Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section and the FBI.
He was located Tuesday night around 7:30 p.m. and transferred to the custody of the Billerica Police Department.
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Touch is expected to be arraigned Wednesday.
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