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Officers from the Springfield Police Department in Hampden County spotted a man riding on the hood of a moving car at approximately 2:40 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 6 with a second sitting on the sunroof of the vehicle while a third was leaning out the passenger side window recording the scene on a phone, prompting a traffic stop.
During the subsequent traffic stop near the intersection of Main Street and Wendell Place in Springfield, police said that the 20-year-old driver, Felix Martinez, of Springfield, was instructed that the car was not registered, at which point he pushed an officer in the chest and attempted to flee on foot.
Inside the car, police said that officers seized a loaded large-capacity weapon inside the jacket Martinez took off as he was getting out of the car with 16 rounds inside the chamber.
Officers also recovered approximately 15 ounces of marijuana.
Police noted that Martinez was arrested in March on firearms charges in a case that remains open in Hampden Superior Court.
Martinez was arrested and charged with:
- Carrying a loaded large-capacity firearm without a license;
- Carrying a firearm without a license;
- Improper storage of a large-capacity firearm;
- Reckless operation of a motor vehicle;
- Assault and battery on a police officer;
- Resisting arrest;
- Attaching improper plates to a motor vehicle;
- Operating an unregistered motor vehicle;
- Operating an uninsured motor vehicle;
- Failure to produce a driver’s license;
- Possession with intent to distribute a Class D drug.
No return court date for Martinez has been announced.
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