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Gun Used in Earlier Shooting Found After Brooklyn Car Stop, Police Say

 Police said they found a loaded .38 caliber revolver used in an earlier shooting after pulling over a Mercedes at Albany Avenue in Crown Heights Tuesday, July 22, 2014.
Police said they found a loaded .38 caliber revolver used in an earlier shooting after pulling over a Mercedes at Albany Avenue in Crown Heights Tuesday, July 22, 2014.
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BROOKLYN — Police discovered a gun connected to an earlier shooting in Flatbush after puling over a car for a broken taillight in Crown Heights on Tuesday, according to the NYPD.

Officers from the Brooklyn South Borough Anti-Crime Team pulled over a man and woman driving a 2009 white Mercedes Benz while it headed south on Albany Avenue near Maple Street at about 9:10 p.m. on July 22.

When asked for identification the 26-year-old diver, Bianca Blackford, opened the glove compartment and two officers on the passenger side of the vehicle spotted a knife in the compartment, police said.

Blackford and passenger Yasser Julio, 34, were then asked to exit the vehicle.

One of the officers noticed a bulge in Julio’s pocket, frisked him and found the object felt like a gun. The officer then removed a .38 caliber Rossi revolver which contained one spent shell and four cartridges.

Julio and Blackford were arrested and officers then found a plastic bag in the back seat filled with crack, according to the NYPD.

The driver and passenger fit the description of a shooting that happened a little more than an hour before at 2017 Albermarle Road, where a 23-year-old man was shot in the leg by a man who got out of a white Mercedes.

The victim was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition.

Blackford and Julio were charged in the shooting after being arrested.

Blackford is also charged with felony assault and criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Julio was also charged with felony assault, criminal use of a firearm, criminal possession of a weapon and possession of a controlled substance. 

He was held on $75,000 bail after being arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court on Thursday. 

Blackford was held on $5,000 bail.

Both are due back in court on Monday.