On April 19th, officers from the Springfield Police Department were dispatched to an apartment on Harrison Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts, after receiving a report of a man with a gun at around 2:15 p.m.
Upon their arrival, the officers entered the apartment with permission from the occupants and found 31-year-old Edwin Torres Jr. in a bedroom, holding a gun.
The police disarmed Torres Jr. and confiscated the gun, which was loaded with 17 rounds of ammunition. The serial number on the gun had been deliberately altered.
Torres Jr. was arrested and charged with multiple firearms offenses, including unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a large-capacity firearm, possession of a firearm with an altered serial number, possession of a high-capacity magazine, and possession of ammunition without a permit.
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