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The four men were arrested in Hampden County around 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 8, when detectives from the Springfield Police received information that the men were in possession of firearms and were conducting surveillance when they entered the store.
When the men entered the store, located on the 100 block of Dickinson Street of Springfield, detectives moved in and arrested them, said Ryan Walsh, spokesman for the Springfield Police.
Detectives then seized a loaded firearm from each of the men and placed them under arrest. Walsh said.
Officers also recovered oxycodone and suboxone from one of the men and more than 2 grams of cocaine from another.
The men were identified as Jorge Tudor, age 25, of Chicopee; Austin Shepard. age 23. of Chicopee, Donnelle Gutierrez. age 27. of Holyoke, and Anthony Donastorg, age 21, of Springfield, Walsh said.
Tudor is currently on Hampden Superior Court probation for a conviction for possession of a large-capacity firearm, Walsh said.
Donastorg had an active default warrant on firearms charges from a July 2020 shooting, he added.
Tudor was charged with:
- Carrying a firearm without a license
- Carrying a loaded large-capacity firearm on a public way
- Carrying a firearm without a license
- Improper storage of a large capacity firearm
Shepard was charged with:
- Carrying a loaded firearm without a license
- Carrying a firearm without a license
- Possession of a Class B drug
Gutierrez was charged with:
- Carrying a loaded large-capacity firearm on a public way
- Carrying a firearm without a license
- Improper storage of a large capacity firearm
- Possession of a Class B drug (2 Counts)
- Receiving stolen property less than $1200
Donastorg was charged with:
- Carrying a loaded firearm without a license
- Carrying a loaded large-capacity firearm on a public way
- Improper storage of a large capacity firearm
- Receiving a firearm with a defaced serial number
- Default warrant
- Discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building
- Carrying a firearm without a license
- Assault with a dangerous weapon
- Carrying a loaded firearm without a license
- Malicious damage to a motor vehicle
- Assault & battery with a firearm
- Receiving stolen property less than $1200
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