SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) — Springfield police have arrested 3 armed robbery suspects tonight following a car chase that lasted for about 30 minutes and went through multiple communities.
Police Sgt. John Delaney told us that shortly before 7:30 p.m. there were two armed robberies. One took place on Chester Street and one was on Clifton Avenue which is the same neighborhood off of Central Street. In each instance, a victim was held up at gun point, but not injured.
That’s when police were notified by each of the two victims that they had been robbed by 3 individuals driving in a Ford Expedition with a Connecticut license plate.
From their description police were able to spot the vehicle with the suspects inside at the Six Corners intersection in Springfield at 7:30 p.m., but they would not stop.
Sgt. Delaney says, “The chase tonight went from Springfield to Chicopee to Ludlow to Granby and then back to Chicopee.”
During this time ABC40 received a number of calls from residents who saw about two dozen police cruisers go by their homes.
Not only were Springfield Police trying to stop the vehicle, but so was State Police as well as officers from the other communities.
“Both Chicopee and Springfield police put spike strips down and that’s when the Ford Expedition hit the spike strips, disabling the vehicle. Two police cruisers were damaged after hitting the spike strips as well in the chase,” explains Delaney.
Officers on scene then noticed a gun being tossed out of the vehicle. Shortly thereafter, police were able to place the 3 suspects under arrest as they couldn’t go any further in their vehicle.
The gun was recovered in the woods by a K-9 unit and police also found marijuana packaged for sale inside the Ford Expedition.
Arrested was 19-year-old, John Matos of Springfield and 21-year-old, William Locker of Hartford CT. Sgt. Delaney says the third suspect arrested was a juvenile so they are not releasing this person’s identity.
No word on what charges these three will be facing.
The Springfield Police Department continues to investigate this incident.
Its not even warm out yet…
It’s Friday. These kids may have to spend the whole weekend in jail before some judge sets them free
They need to spend more than the weekend in jail!
Scary stuff! Thought it was a jail break!
I saw the chase on 291 wow can’t believe how many cop cars there had to be about 29 to 30 !! All for this one car the car they were chasing was going about 100 miles an hour. Crazy never say anything like this before glad no one got hurt or killed
And also the drove passed the ludlow jail they should of turn in on that street
Nice work, guys.
Awesome work!