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■ DRUG ARREST A Lowell man was arrested Monday and accused of running a heroin distribution ring from the apartment he shared with two small children. Kevin Davidson, 31, was arrested in his apartment on Smith Street,Lowell police said in a statement. Detectives found 33 grams of suspected heroin, a bag of cocaine, $3,345 in cash, and “paraphernalia indicting a significant heroin distributing operation’’ in the apartment, police said. Two children, ages 2 and 5, were also found in the apartment. Police contacted the Department of Children & Families and an investigation was started, police said. Davidson was arraigned at the Lowell District Court Tuesday morning and charged with trafficking in heroin, trafficking in heroin in a school zone, and unlawful possession of Class B cocaine, police said. Held on $10,000 bail,he is scheduled to next appear in court on July 14.

■ CHILD CUT A first-grader at the Mattahunt Elementary School in Mattapan was sliced in the hand by a razor during recess Monday afternoon and had to be taken to the hospital, officials said. The girl told police that she and her classmates found three razors under a bench, officials said, and began experimenting with them.

■ BODY FOUND The body of a local tour boat captain was found on Chatham’s North Beach Monday. The discovery of David Murdock, 78, of Chatham, was reported to police shortly before 4 p.m., said Tara Miltimore, spokeswoman for the Cape and Islands district attorney’s office. The death is being investigated by State Police, Environmental Police, and Chatham police. Officials say there is no reason to suspect foul play.

■ WOMAN CONVICTED A New Hampshire woman was convicted Monday of running a human trafficking operation out of the Day Spa for Gentlemen in Lawrence, officials said. Lori Barron, 54, of Salem, N.H., who was arrested in 2013, was found guilty of recruiting women to work as prostitutes at the massage parlor, according to the Essex district attorney’s office. “After hiring the women to work as a receptionist, she would pressure them to give massages and instructed them to perform a sex act at the conclusion of the massage. She videotaped the women performing the sex acts and threatened to show the videos to family members ... if the women refused to perform the sex acts,’’ the district attorney’s statement said. The judge revoked Barron’s bail, pending a sentencing hearing July 28. “The victims in this case showed great courage in testifying despite having to expose their own mistakes,’’ Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said.