Police collared a teen for an illegal handgun during a police stop in Jamaica, authorities said.

Plainclothes cops spotted Nicholas Morris, 17, adjusting an object in his waistband about 1:40 p.m. yesterday near Sayres Avenue and 167th Street during a surveillance operation, police said.

They identified themselves and asked Morris what he had in the waistband, cops said.

When he said he a gun, police searched him and found a loaded 9-mm handgun.

He was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, cops added.

The neighborhood has been plagued by gun violence. 14-year-old D’aja Robinson was shot less than two miles away by a stray bullet while sitting on a city bus last Saturday and was buried yesterday.