Traffic Stop In Charlestown Leads To Gun, 2 Arrests

CHARLESTOWN, MA — Police arrested two Boston men and confiscated a loaded gun in Charlestown after a routine traffic stop, police said.

At about 7:35 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 3, officers pulled over a car with what they deemed excessive window tinting and another unnamed traffic violation near Medford Street and Decatur Street in Charlestown.

When the occupants of the car appeared nervous, police asked them to get out of the car. That's when they found the driver to have a gun in his waistband. Officers recovered and cofiscated a loaded Walther P99 .40 caliber firearm and 10 rounds of live ammunition.

Police arrested the driver, Lukasz Zajkowski, 33, of Dorchester as well as Darien Everett, 36, of Hyde Park.

Zajkowski is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of a loaded firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, and larceny of a firearm.

Everett, on a court issued GPS monitoring device, is charged with a probation violation.

Both are expected to be arraigned in Charlestown District Court.

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