SPRINGFIELD, MA — Springfield Police seized five illegal firearms and arrested seven people after executing a search warrant on Adams Street on Saturday.
The arrests came as the Springfield Police Firearms Investigation Unit reported recovering a record 164 illegal firearms in 2025, the highest total in the unit’s five-year history.
Members of the Firearms Investigation Unit, Emergency Services Unit, Neighborhood Stabilization Bureau and officers assigned to Squad C executed the search warrant at approximately 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 3 in the 0-100 block of Adams Street.
Police recovered five illegal firearms, five additional firearm magazines, approximately 40 rounds of ammunition, a firearm silencer, a bulletproof vest, $1,847 in cash and approximately 209 grams of crack-cocaine.
Three of the firearms were large-capacity weapons capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
As officers prepared to execute the warrant around 6:15 p.m., four people walked out of the home and were detained.
Inside the home, police detained three juvenile males ages 13, 14 and 14.
A 15-year-old juvenile male attempted to run away but was detained on the premises.
Jadis Arnold-Roberts, 18, of Springfield, ran out of the home and was taken into custody after attempting to jump a fence.
Sergio Torres, 23, of Springfield, attempted to run away and was located hiding under a vehicle on Adams Street.
Angel Sanchez, 31, of Springfield, was also arrested.
Arnold-Roberts was wearing a court-issued electronic monitoring ankle bracelet at the time of his arrest.
Sanchez had a prior firearms conviction from 2024.
The Firearms Investigation Unit had been conducting an investigation for the past week with Arnold-Roberts as a suspect and the Adams Street home as a targeted location.
Arnold-Roberts, Sanchez and Torres each face multiple charges including five counts of carrying a firearm without a license, two counts of carrying a loaded firearm without a license, three counts of carrying a loaded large capacity firearm on a public way, cocaine trafficking of 200 grams or more, possession of a silencer and conspiracy to violate drug law.
Sanchez also faces a charge of convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
The names and charges of the four juvenile males will not be released due to their ages.
Springfield Police recovered 347 firearms department-wide in 2025, with 164 seized by the Firearms Investigation Unit.
