Cab passenger arrested with loaded gun in Dorchester, police say

Boston Police report gang-unit officers arrested the guy in the back seat of a cab they'd stopped at Talbot Avenue and Nightingale Street in Dorchester around 4:10 p.m. on Tuesday.

During the traffic stop, officers recovered a Chiappa M9 .22 caliber handgun loaded with ten rounds of live ammunition on the floor behind the driver’s seat in the rear of the taxi. The rear passenger was taken into custody.

Kerim Charles, 19, of Dorchester, was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition and unlawful possession of a large-capacity feeding device, police say.

Innocent, etc.