SPRINGFIELD — Springfield Police officers and K9 unit arrested a 22-year-old Connecticut man early Sunday morning after responding to a gun call and locating a loaded firearm.
Officers arrested Abraham Harris of Broad Brook, Connecticut, on the 1100 block of Bay Street at approximately 3:15 a.m. June 22.
Police initially responded to a gun call around 2:20 a.m. at the 1700 block of Roosevelt Avenue inside Blunt Park.
Officers located several subjects who left the park and walked into a parking lot on the 1100 block of Bay Street.
Harris fled on foot while holding an item by his side, according to police.
Harris jumped over a fence and then came back over where officers detained him.
The Springfield Fire Department assisted officers in gaining access behind the locked fence area.
K9 Officer Jacob Boudreau and K9 Taz located a loaded firearm next to the fence Harris had scaled.
The firearm contained 12 rounds of ammunition.
Harris faces charges including carrying a firearm without a license, possession of a high-capacity magazine/feeding device, carrying a loaded firearm without a license, trespassing with a firearm, breaking and entering a building at nighttime for a felony, and an arrest warrant for unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
