A laptop tracker led police to arrest three men and seize numerous firearms, ammunition, a conducted energy device, drugs and cash from a property in Sunshine North yesterday, Victorian Police said.
Police received a report of a theft from motor vehicle about 1pm yesterday, with the female victim claiming that her Mazda car was broken into while parked on Maidstone Street in Altona sometime between 11.50pm on 1 October and 2.30pm on 2 October.
It is alleged a number of items were stolen from the vehicle including a laptop with tracking software.
The 37-year-old Altona woman used the tracking software and identified the laptop was possibly on Holehouse Street, Sunshine North.
Hobsons Bay Crime Investigation Unit detectives, with the assistance of members from the Operations Response Unit (ORU), attended the street in search of the stolen laptop.
Members spoke to numerous residents and later obtained a search warrant for a particular house.
Detectives from Hobsons Bay, Maribyrnong and Brimbank, with the assistance of the ORU and local Keilor Downs police, searched the property and located the alleged stolen lap top along with four firearms, ammunition, a conducted energy device, cash and an amount of drugs.
Three men were arrested at the scene.
Two men, both aged 27, have been charged with firearms, drug, ammunition, weapons and property offences.
Do Nguyen, of no fixed address, and Armindeer Singh, from Sunshine, faced an out of session’s court hearing last night and were remanded in custody.
Both will face Melbourne Magistrates’ Court this morning.
The other man, a 26-year-old from St Albans, was charged with firearms and drug offences and has ben bailed to appear at Sunshine Magistrates’ Court on 21 December.
