A two-day operation targeting retail theft crimes by the Springfield Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division resulted in seven arrests and the recovery of one illegal firearm.
Those arrests resulted in five felony charges for retail theft, three misdemeanor charges for retail theft, one felony warrant arrest, and one felony charge for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, defacing identification marks of a firearm, and no Firearm Owner’s Identification card.
The operation was conducted on July 24th and 25th.
