A routine traffic stop in Roxbury turned into a firearms bust when Boston Police officers from the District B-2 Drug Control Unit and Anti-Crime Unit arrested Andover resident Luis Fernando Guzman-Ortiz on Monday afternoon. The arrest occurred after officers spotted a car with a defective tail light that was subsequently parked illegally in front of the very station patrolling the area.
The officers conducting the patrol decided to quickly engage their lights and sirens, indicating the driver to stop. Upon approaching the vehicle near Washington Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard, they made contact with Guzman-Ortiz. The Boston Police department reported that a subsequent check of Guzman-Ortiz's driver's license revealed it was suspended, prompting his arrest.
As standard procedure dictates, officers advised Guzman-Ortiz that his vehicle would need to be towed. During the course of the search that officers are meant to conduct before such a tow, they discovered a firearm. The weapon in question was an SCCY 9mm pistol, complete with nine rounds already loaded in the magazine—a find not so uncommon in the streets yet ever alarming in its potential for unnamed tragedies.
Guzman-Ortiz now faces charges including unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of ammunition, and operating a vehicle with a suspended license. He was set to quickly answer these charges in Roxbury District Court, where the implications of the officers’ discoveries would inevitably unfold against the backdrop of a community all too familiar with such scenes.
