SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - Three Springfield residents have been arrested in connection to drug trafficking and illegal firearms.

The arrest took place on Wednesday as a result of a weeks-long operation conducted by the Springfield Police firearms investigation unit into alleged illegal heroin distribution from a Canon Circle apartment and two alleged suspects, 41-year-old Jose Mendez-Collazo and 29-year-old Mariester Rivera, both of Springfield.

Detectives were conducting surveillance on Mendez-Collazo on Wednesday when they saw him reportedly get into a car and leave the area. He then parked on the 0-100 block of Mill Street and a woman got into the car. As the woman, identified as 38-year-old Arianna Alvarado-Torres of Springfield, got back out of the vehicle, she and Mendez-Coll

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