Waynesboro police arrested three illegal immigrants from Mexico Friday afternoon when they were stopped on a traffic stop with a semi-automatic handgun among them.

Fidel Moreno Pina, 35, Israel Arista Vega, 34, and Javier Lopez Gomez, 35, all face a single felony count of possession of a firearm by a non-U.S. citizen in the county illegally.

On November 20, at about 1:15 p.m., an officer with the department’s Special Operations Division, who was acting on a tip, stopped a 2007 Hummer in the 1000 block of Albemarle Avenue.

During the traffic stop, officers searched the vehicle and found a Bersa Thunder .380 semi-automatic handgun. Officers determined that all three men were illegal immigrants and notified agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE put detainers on all three individuals.

Vega was already pending deportation having overstayed his visa by a year.

This is the same area of Albemarle Avenue where two prior drug raids by the Police Department have netted marijuana, methamphetamine and four arrests. It is also the same area where a home invasion armed robbery occurred on September 18, 2015.