A man is due in court today charged after a loaded sawn-off rifle, a conducted electrical weapon and drugs were seized during a vehicle stop at Villawood this morning, NSW Police say.
Officers from the South West Metropolitan Region Enforcement Squad (RES) stopped the vehicle at the intersection of Yunga Burra Street and Belar Avenue, Villawood, about 12.30am today (Saturday 17 November 2018).
Bankstown Police Area Command officers were called to the scene and arrested the three men and a woman who were travelling in the vehicle.
When the vehicle was searched, police seized a loaded sawn-off rifle, three replica firearms, an electronic stun device disguised as a torch, ammunition and drugs suspected of being ICE. Numerous identification cards were also found.
All four were taken to Bankstown Police Station.
A 32-year-old man has now been charged with
• Possess loaded firearm in a public place
• Possess shortened firearm without authority
• Possess ammunition without licence
• Possess unauthorised pistol, not keep firearm safely
• Possess unauthorised prohibited firearm, and
• Possess or use a prohibited weapon without permit.
He has been refused bail to appear in Parramatta Bail Court today.
A 35-year-old Wiley Park woman has been issued with a Future Court Attendance Notice for the offence of having goods in custody suspect of being stolen, in relation to the identification cards. She has now been released.
Two men, aged 35 and 40, have been released pending further investigation.
