'Nervous' Men at Traffic Stop Prompt Police to Search Bag in SUV, Discovering Firearm With Modification Chip

ST. THOMAS — Three men are facing charges after a traffic stop search turns up a modified firearm and ammunition. On Tuesday afternoon, police were conducting traffic operations on St. Peter Mountain Road, when they pulled over a red SUV that one officer observed to have failed to yield at a stop sign.  As soon as one officer approached the vehicle, he alerted his colleagues that he knew the driver David Valdivieso Medina, from a “previous traffic encounter.” This time, officers say Medina was fidgety, “erratic in his movements,” and so were his two passengers Andres Guerrero and Jhosnel Garcia. Medina tried to exit the vehicle when asked for his documents, police reported, and had to be ordered back to his seat, where he kept turning to look at a black bag on the back seat.  Meanwhile, Garcia and Guerrero sat shaking in their seats. Guerrero was in the back reaching for the black bag that had captured Medina’s attention. He reportedly kept reaching for the bag despite more than one...