On February 20, 2014, Cincinnati police carried out coordinated raids across several parts of the city, including the West End and areas connected to Over-the-Rhine. Authorities said the operation followed a months-long investigation into a group they believed was connected to guns, drugs, and violence. Police reported multiple arrests, recovered firearms, and said more suspects were still being sought.
The raids were presented as a larger public-safety operation, but police said the case traced back to a homicide four months earlier. On October 15, 2013, 14-year-old Dwayne Lewis was found shot to death in South Fairmount near Knox Street and Blaine Road. Dwayne was a high school freshman. Earlier that afternoon, he had gotten off a school bus near Hawaiian Terrace. By the end of the day, investigators were treating his death as a kidnapping and murder case.
Within four days, police arrested Julius White, a 24-year-old man from Over-the-Rhine who had previously served time in a federal heroin trafficking case and was still on probation. His arrest gave detectives a central suspect, but authorities said the investigation did not stop there. It expanded into the people, vehicles, addresses, and neighborhoods they believed were connected to him.
Court records later described witnesses placing Dwayne near Hawaiian Terrace before he disappeared. Witnesses also described a black Infiniti connected to the case and said Dwayne appeared distressed before getting into the vehicle. One friend testified that Dwayne told him, “Tell momma I love her, I’m about to go to my daddy’s house.”
As detectives worked to determine how Dwayne went from getting off a school bus to being found shot across town, they also encountered references to a possible break-in earlier that day. At the time, it was one lead among several. It did not immediately explain why a 14-year-old freshman would become the target of a kidnapping and murder investigation.
By February 2014, police said the case had grown beyond one arrest. The investigation moved from South Fairmount to Hawaiian Terrace, from witness statements to vehicles, and from a murder charge to a wider operation involving multiple suspects. The raids were not a separate headline from Dwayne’s death. Authorities connected them to the same investigation that began when a freshman was killed after school. Julius White’s arrest came first. The broader raids came later. But prosecutors would say the entire sequence started with a missing $200,000.
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