A man has been charged after firearms and drugs were seized in the state's Southern Region yesterday.
About 7.30am (Wednesday 6 August 2025), officers attached to Murrumbidgee Police District attended a home on Speirs Street, Griffith, to conduct a Firearms Prohibition Order compliance check.
Police searched the home and allegedly located and seized a black gun barrel of a .22 rifle, trigger, two firearm bolts and a wooden firearm stock.
Police also allegedly located and seized several small clear resealable bags containing a white crystal substance, believed to be methylamphetamine and pink powder.
A 22-year-old man was arrested and taken to Griffith Police Station.
The man was charged with possess unauthorised firearm, not keep firearm safely- not pistol/prohibited firearm, acquire firearm part subject to firearms prohibition order, acquire prohibited firearm subject to firearms prohibition order and fail to comply digital evidence access order direction.
He was refused bail and will appear in Bail Division Court 5 today, Thursday 7 August 2025.
