Cops arrest teens armed with pellet guns, replica rifles on Hancock Street

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Boston Police responding to a call of a person with a gun this morning ended up confiscating four replica guns — including two that resembled black assault rifles—brandished by a group of teens driving around Bowdoin-Geneva and Uphams Corner and shooting pellets.

The dangerous incident unfolded just after 10 a.m. today after police attached to the Youth Violence Strike Force spotted a gray Volvo with four occupants on Hancock Street. They matched the description that had just been provided to 911 of a men firing a weapon from a car on nearby Draper Street.

Police stopped the vehicle and observed one of the men in the back seat kick a firearm under the front seat. As officers approached the car with their service weapons drawn, police say the young men in the car began yelling out that the guns in the car— including two rifle-sized firearms —were fake.

Arrested at the scene were Kelvin Tejada,19, Patrick Colbreath, 18, and two 17 year-old juveniles, a man and a woman. They are all facing charges of Disturbing the Peace.

Captain Timothy Connolly, the commander of District 11 where the arrests took place, praised Boston Police officers for resolving the incident safely.

"Today, Boston Police Officers were confronted with a very volatile situation where a call came into the police department for: 'People in a car with a gun,'" said Connolly. "Officers used de-escalation techniques, combined with a correct use of force and sound judgment. Appropriately, the officers resolved the issue with skill, expertise, tact and diplomacy."

The scene of the arrest was just blocks from where a man was shot dead and a woman injured in a broad daylight double shooting on July 7.

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