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HOLYOKE -- Police seized a .rifle and arrested a Tokeneke Road man Friday after a tip that a weapon was being stored there illegally in the continuing effort to get guns off the streets, Lt. James Albert said.

"This is all part of it," Albert said.

Luis Dupre, 18, of that address, was charged with possession of a firearm without a firearm identification card, improperly storing and keeping a weapon and receiving stolen property over $250. The weapon was a .50-caliber Barrett rifle, he said.

Joining the Holyoke police Narcotics Unit in the arrest were members of the FBI's Western Massachusetts Gang Task Force and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, he said.