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2-22-17 -- Police raided a North End apartment Wednesday afternoon and seized 610 bags of heroin -- enough to make UP thousands of bags of the drug. Three suspects were arrested.

(SPRINGFIELD POLICE / FACEBOOK)

SPRINGFIELD -- Narcotics detectives raided a North End apartment Wednesday afternoon and seized a large quantity of pure heroin - enough to make up thousands of bags worth of the drug, police said.

Police arrested three men and also seized shotgun and rifle ammunition, cocaine and a "Rolex" stamp to mark heroin bags.

"This is a huge seizure of pure heroin that would have been packaged into thousands of bags of heroin for sale on the streets of Western Massachusetts," Sgt. John Delaney said.

Police executed their search warrant at 53 Church St. at about 4:45 p.m., Delaney, public information officer for the department, said.

Arrested were: Jose Guzman Baez, 41, of 53 Church St.; Edward Olmo, 22, of 116 Spring St.; and Jose Baez, 22, of of 53 Church St.

They were charged with trafficking in heroin, trafficking in cocaine, possession of ammunition without an FID card, violation of a drug-free zone.

The seized ammunition consisted of 24 shotgun shells, 17 rounds of 30/30 and 20 rounds of 30/06.