Police: 11 arrested with firearms at Boston’s Caribbean festival, no shots fired

No one was injured, and no shots were fired, police said, a year after eight people were shot at the Caribbean Carnival Festival in Dorchester.

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The annual Caribbean Carnival Parade was held Saturday afternoon as participants made their way down MLK Blvd. and Warren Streets to the final destination of Franklin Park. A costumed man walks on stilts down MLK Blvd. John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe

Eleven people were arrested with firearms around the Caribbean Carnival Festival in Dorchester Saturday, police announced, a year after eight people were shot on the outskirts of the parade.

From 2 a.m. to after 7 p.m. on Saturday, police recovered nine firearms, Boston police announced Sunday. Four of the 11 people facing charges are juveniles, the department said, and four guns were large capacity.

Last year, eight people were injured, including one seriously, in a shooting before 8 a.m. at the festival’s J’ouvert Parade near Blue Hill and Talbot Avenues in Dorchester. Four men were charged in connection with the shooting…

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