Boston police arrested several people in separate firearms-related incidents within 24 hours on Saturday.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested shortly after 2 a.m. on Saturday after a loaded gun was found in his backpack.
According to police, he was in the area of Washington Street and Talbot Avenue with another man who was riding a bicycle with a flat tire. According to police, when the men noticed the officers in a parked patrol car, the teen ran toward Talbot Avenue and threw off his backpack.
Police found the teenager hiding under a vehicle.
Next to the discarded backpack, officers found a P80 Ghost pistol with one round in the barrel and twenty rounds in an extended magazine.
In another incident on Saturday shortly after 11 a.m., two more people were arrested.
In that incident, officers on patrol at the Caribbean Festival observed 18-year-old Edgard Matos of Hyde Park hand a loaded handgun to 23-year-old Breaja Nichols of Brighton in the area of Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road.
The officers confiscated the loaded weapon from Nichols. After a chase with Matos, the officers also found eleven small plastic bags containing crack cocaine.
Shortly before 1 p.m., police arrested a 16-year-old boy and two other 17-year-old boys were arrested in the Caribbean Festival area. According to police, one of the youths was recently pictured on a flyer with the message “Identity Wanted.”
According to police, there was a backpack containing a large-capacity magazine with sixteen cartridges and two of the teenagers were carrying a firearm.
Shortly before 3 p.m., another person was arrested in another incident at the Caribbean Festival: 25-year-old Avery Coke of Canton. Police say Coke had a loaded gun in a fanny pack.
Later that evening, at least four more people were arrested for possession of weapons, one of them a 16-year-old male.
The juvenile suspects in all incidents are all expected to be arraigned in Dorchester Juvenile Court. It is unclear if any of the suspects have an attorney.
