Weapons charges, Mareeba

Mareeba police have charged a man with weapons offences following an incident in Mareeba last night.

At about 7:30pm police were called to a residence on the Kennedy Highway in relation to reports of a gun being fired.

Police then attended an address on Constance Street just before 8.30pm, where a man was arrested without incident, allegedly in possession of firearms.

A 36-year-old Mareeba man appeared in Atherton Magistrates Court this morning charged with one count each of unlawful possession of weapons, dangerous conduct with weapon, possess shortened firearms, possess explosives and possess restricted items.

He is due to reappear in the Mareeba Magistrates Court on Monday November 14.

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