New Bedford Man Arrested With Firearm

NEW BEDFORD (WBSM) — New Bedford Police detectives arrested a city man and took a firearm off the street recently.

According to police, detectives assigned to the Organized Crime Intelligence Bureau were monitoring activity in the city’s North End on Friday, February 28. Detectives stopped a vehicle on Belleville Avenue, just south of Coffin Avenue.

The driver of the vehicle was identified as Cristhian Joel Gonzalez, 21, of New Bedford.

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Police said that detectives searched the vehicle and located a 9mm Taurus firearm loaded with seven rounds of ammunition behind a center display screen in the dashboard.

Gonzalez was arrested and charged with carrying a loaded firearm without a license and possession of ammunition without an FID card.

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