Boston police recovered two firearms and arrested a male who ran into the home of an elderly man during a brief foot chase in Mattapan last night, Boston police said.

Members of the Youth Violence Strike Force, a part of the Boston police Department's Special Operations Division, were on patrol when they spotted a suspicious group of six males walking in the area of Almont Street, Boston police said in a posting on their blog.

As officers spoke with one individual, who they believed to be a gang affiliate, another male threw a heavy black object on the ground, which was later identified as a Glock 36 .45-caliber automatic firearm, police said.