Boston Police arrested a teen on multiple firearm charges in Dorchester Tuesday.

Officers on patrol at the intersection of Dakota Street and Washington Street saw three individuals walking at around 9 p.m.

When they approached, police said the individuals “became hypervigilant of the marked police cruiser.” An officer also said he recognized one of the individuals from a prior arrest.

After the group went into a convenience store, officers followed. They said they believed that one of the individuals might be a missing juvenile.

“As officers approached the group, one individual repeatedly looked toward his waistband,” a statement from BPD said.

Officers conducted a frisk because they said they feared one of the individuals might be armed. When an officer felt what he believed to be a gun, a struggle began as the suspect resisted being put in handcuffs, police said.

Additional officers responded to the scene, and all three individuals were detained.

A gun determined to be a Taurus G2C loaded with 12 rounds in the magazine was recovered on the suspect, according to BPD. The two other individuals were released.

The 17-year-old, who was not named in the statement because he’s a juvenile, was arrested and is expected to be arraigned at Dorchester District Court on charges of: being a minor while carrying a firearm without a license, possession of a large capacity firearm, possession of ammunition without an FID card, carrying a loaded firearm without a license, and resisting arrest.

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Incident Summary

BPD responded to 165 incidents in the 24-hour period ending at 10 a.m. Wednesday, according to the department’s incident log. Those included arrests for three aggravated assaults, one commercial burglary, one residential burglary, two larcenies from a vehicle, nine miscellaneous larcenies, one auto theft.

Arrests

All of the below-named defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

— Santiago Betancur Echavarria, 117 Coleridge St., East Boston. Leaving the scene of property damage.

— Christopher Daley, 29 Pratt St., Allston. Open and gross lewdness.

— Michael Carney, 134 Wakefield St., Reading. Shoplifting more than $100 by concealing merchandise.

— Kathryn Johnson, 10 Cragmere St., Boston. Warrant arrest.

— Vanessa Townes, 340 Market St., Boston. Kidnapping and endangering a minor.

— Willie Jenkins, no address listed. Possession of a Class B drug.

— Clei Sandoval Arias, 67 Homestead St., Roxbury. Identity fraud.