Commonwealth v. Barbosa

Primarily, we are concerned with the lawfulness of an investigatory stop and search. The defendant was convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition (G. L. c. 269, §§ 10[a] and 10[h]). We affirm the denial of a pretrial motion to suppress and a motion for required finding of not guilty.

1. The dispatch. This was the content of the dispatch broadcast by file police in Stoughton on July 9, 1997. There had been an armed robbery at approximately 4 a.m. of a Christy’s convenience store on Route 27 in Stoughton. The suspects were *345three Cape Verdean youths, about eighteen years old,…