BOSTON, Jan. 27, 2014—A Dorchester man was arraigned today after Boston Police acting on a tip discovered a loaded firearm in his car during a traffic stop, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

CHRISTIAN ISAAC (D.O.B. 8/19/85) was arraigned in Roxbury District Court on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, carrying a loaded firearm, possession with intent to distribute a Class D substance, and failure to stop for police.  He was additionally charged as a Level I armed career criminal based on a 2006 conviction for distribution of a Class B substance.

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Costello requested that bail be set at $30,000.  Judge David Poole imposed $10,000 bail and ordered that, in the event he is released on bail, Isaac wear a GPS monitoring device and stay away from the Lenox Street Housing Development, where he was seen just prior to his arrest.

“Every gun arrest foils a potential shooting or worse,” Conley said. “Nothing good was going to come from a fully-loaded, illegal handgun in a convicted drug dealer’s possession. This was solid work by Boston Police, both in developing the information and acting rapidly on it.”

Boston Police received information on Friday that Isaac was in possession of an illegal firearm. At about 7:00 p.m. that evening, after watching his Dodge Ram pick-up truck roll through a stop sign posted at the intersection of Shawmut Avenue and Washington Street, they stopped the vehicle.

When officers approached the truck, they detected the strong odor of unburnt marijuana and spotted a semiautomatic firearm at Isaac’s feet on the driver’s side floor mat, prosecutors said.  Isaac and a front seat passenger were both removed from the vehicle.

Officers found that the firearm – Ruger Hi-Point C9 9mm – was loaded with one round in the chamber and seven in the magazine.  A small bag of marijuana and a digital scale with marijuana residue was found inside the vehicle, and officers found a second, larger bag of marijuana and $277 on Isaac, prosecutors said.

Isaac is represented by Bruce Carroll.  His next court date will be on Feb. 24 in the Suffolk County Gun Court, which fast-tracks cases of firearm possession, and senior prosecutors from the DA’s Gang Unit will review the case for potential indictment and Superior Court prosecution.

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