Police patrolling Caribbean Carnival arrest eight people they say were walking or running around with loaded guns

Boston Police report on a series of unrelated arrests Saturday of people wandering around the Caribbean Carnival area with loaded guns, from a 16-year-old and two pals they say had two guns in a backpack - one loaded with 18 bullets - to a man with a gun loaded with seven rounds who was charged with his fourth firearm offense.

The first festival-related arrest happened at 11:15 a.m. at Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road, when police say a guy from Hyde Park who started walking "at a fast pace" when officers approached handed off his gun loaded with nine bullets to a woman from Brighton - who tried to fight her way out of arrest and who was also found in possession of "eleven small plastic bags" of crack.

The last came at 6:45 p.m., police say, when officers responded to a fight, also at Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia, in which one man had been knocked unconscious:

As officers were on scene, they observed a male individual with a satchel strapped across his body. Officers immediately observed what appeared to be an outline of a firearm.

Officers approached the suspect and immediately conducted a pat frisk. Officers recovered a firearm from inside the bag which was later determined to be a Ruger Security-9 loaded with nine rounds. Officers further observed the firearm’s serial number was obliterated.

Arrested: A 17-year-old.

In between, police say, gang-unit officers on the lookout for Dayshawn Grant, 34, of Roxbury, because he might have a gun, found him - and a gun - walking with a group in the area of Blue Hill Avenue and Seaver Street:

As officers approached the group, multiple individuals began to jump a fence in attempts to flee. Officers observed one individual walking in a fast pace. Officers observed what appeared to be a firearm inside his pocket.

Officers immediately conducted a pat frisk of the suspect, and recovered a firearm. The firearm was later determined to be a Ruger EC9s with one round in the chamber and six rounds in the magazine.

Among the charges against him: Illegal possession of a loaded firearm, fourth offense.

Also Saturday, police say, officers arrested a 15-year-old for the gun loaded with 21 rounds they say he had in a backpack, in the area of Washington Street and Talbot Avenue in Dorchester, shortly after 2 a.m. And a traffic stop on Warren Street in Roxbury, which began when somebody in a passing car threw or squirted something at officers in a parked cruiser ended with a man's arrest for the gun loaded with ten bullets. Police add: "Detectives also recovered a squirt gun from inside the vehicle."

Innocent, etc.