Police say they nab couple driving around Dorchester with a loaded gun

Boston Police report officers responding to a report of gunfire at Harvard Street and Gleason streets in Dorchester around 3 a.m. spotted a car with a broken taillight and pulled it over when they ran the plates and discovered they weren't assigned to that car.

They ordered the couple out of the car - after also determining the driver, Kevin Crutchfield Jr., 35, of Dorchester, had a suspended license - and after noticing his passenger, Cherrelle Rascoe, 37, of Dorchester, was sitting on a bag.

Officers pat frisked the bag, and determined the presence of a firearm. Officers immediately placed both suspects into handcuffs without incident. The firearm was later determined to be a Jennings Firearm Inc J-22 with five rounds in the magazine.

Rascoe was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm without a license and possession of ammunition without a license, police say. Crutchfield was charged with unlicensed operation, driving with attached motor-vehicle plates and driving an unregistered motor vehicle, police say.

Innocent, etc.