Guns, narcotics found during traffic stop on East Carson Street

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Police arrested three people suspected of drug and firearms crimes after the driver failed to use a turn signal, officers said.

Danieal Morris, 27, Eric Addison, 20, and Giante Hilliard, 23, were arrested and charged on Thursday.

Pittsburgh police officers were traveling on Kirkpatrick Street approaching Fifth Avenue when a white Ford Fusion stopped in traffic in front of them, police said in a news release. Officers said they could smell a strong odor of burning marijuana coming from the vehicle.

Police followed the car across the Birmingham Bridge and stopped the car as the driver turned right on to East Carson Street without using a turn signal, officers said.

Officers asked Addison to get out of the rear driver's side passenger seat and found a firearm on the bottom floorboard area where he had been seated, police said. Officers detained Addison and found 10 stamp bags of heroin on him, they said.

Police said Hilliard, who was the front-seat passenger, initially gave officers a false name, but police knew him becuase there was an active warrant for his arrest. As Morris got out of the driver's seat, she told officers that there was also a firearm in the glove box, police said. Officers said they retrieved the firearm from the glove box, along with a bag of marijuana.

Morris is charged with carrying a firearm without a license, turning movements and required signals, possessing instruments of crime and possession of a small amount of marijuana.

Addison is charged with illegally possessing a firearm, carrying a firearm without a license, possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and possessing instruments of crime.

Hilliard’s arrest clears a bench warrant for a July 2016 incident for criminal contempt and aggravated assault. His new charges include illegally possessing a firearm, carrying a firearm without a license, providing false identification to law enforcement authorities, marijuana possession and possessing instruments of crime.

The three suspects were taken to the Allegheny County Jail.

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