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A man who was arrested after Vancouver police seized four guns from him during a routine traffic stop should spend 45 months in jail, a prosecutor argued Wednesday.

Last November, Alexander Bell pleaded guilty to four firearms-related counts in connection with an incident in downtown Vancouver on April 5, 2014.

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On that date, two police officers pulled over a black Cadillac being driven by Bell at the corner of Thurlow and West Hastings streets.

The cops intended to issue Bell tickets for two driving violations but when one of the officers approached the vehicle’s driver side door and asked for Bell’s driver’s licence, she noticed his hands were shaking as he struggled to remove his licence from his wallet.

Bell was also sweating profusely and had bloodshot eyes. As there was no smell of alcohol coming from him, the officer suspected that he was under the influence of drugs and asked him to get out of the vehicle.