SPRINGFIELD -- Detectives have recovered more than $7,000 worth of tools stolen from Home Depot and Lowe's stores in Western Massachusetts and Connecticut from a Worthington Street pawn shop, police said.

The stolen tools were discovered after detective Gifford Jenkins noticed an unusual amount of new, unopened tools on the New England State Police pawn shop reporting system, Ryan Walsh, spokesman for Springfield police, said.

Detectives recovered the stolen items from People's Pawn on Worthington Tuesday afternoon.

Walsh stressed the pawn shop was correctly following city ordinance, which led to the recovery of such items as drills, nail guns and other various tools.

That ordinance requires all pawn shops in the city to enter items they receive into the NESPIN system and then hold onto the items for 30 days.

Home Depot and Lowe's sent representatives to the Springfield Police Department to scan the stolen items and reveal which stores they were stolen from.

They determined the items were stolen from stores in Springfield, West Springfield, Chicopee, Westfield, Greenfield, Wilbraham and Glastonbury, Connecticut.

The police departments in each of those towns have been notified and each jurisdiction will be seeking criminal complaints against the suspects in their respective courts.

Walsh said city detectives are seeking criminal complaints against two suspects in the Springfield case. Police can't release the names of those suspects until they have been arraigned.

The ordinance requires those who present items at pawnshops to show a valid driver's license or government ID.