A routine Dorchester traffic stop over a missed stop sign ended with Boston police arresting two men and seizing two loaded handguns and a bottle of pills on Tuesday night, according to the Boston Police Department. The suspects were identified as 29-year-old Thomas Searcy of Boston and 38-year-old Charles Phillips of Jamaica Plain, who were taken into custody and are expected to be arraigned in Dorchester District Court.
Officers assigned to District B-2 (Roxbury) said they first spotted the vehicle blow through a stop sign at Eldon Street and Washington Street and also noticed excessively tinted windows. They followed the car to 28 Hewins Street, where it finally pulled over. Police said the passenger initially gave false identifying information and kept shifting a bag between his feet, behavior that led officers to order both men out of the vehicle.
A pat frisk and search turned up a firearm in the vehicle and, a short time later, a second gun along with a pill bottle. Inside the bottle, officers reported finding two small bags of colored pills believed to be ecstasy, according to the department…