Thursday07 August 2025 08:05:57 AM
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 StreetGriffithto conduct a Firearms Prohibition Order compliance check.
Police searched the home and allegedly located and seized a black gun barrel of a .22 rifletriggertwo firearm bolts and a wooden firearm stock.
Police also allegedly located and seized several small clear resealable bags containing a white crystal substancebelieved 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 firearmnot keep firearm safely- not pistol/prohibited firearmacquire firearm part subject to firearms prohibition orderacquire 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 todayThursday 7 August 2025.
