Doreen man arrested

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Police has charged a Doreen man and seized firearms parts, ammunition and what is believed to be a mobile clandestine laboratory as part of a targeted investigation into the manufacturing and trafficking of firearms linked to the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gangs.

A warrant was executed at a residential address in Doreen shortly before 6am on Tuesday.

A 35-year-old Doreen man, believed to be an associate of the Mongols OMCG, was charged with a number of offences, including possess cannabis, cultivate cannabis, possess methylamphetamine, possess 1,4-Butanediol, possess ecstasy, possess cartridge ammunition, prohibited person possess firearm, possess prescribed precursor chemical, fail to answer bail and contravene bail conditions.

Police subsequently seized a small quantity of cannabis plants, a crystal substance, ammunition, multiple firearm parts which had been concealed inside a pipe, quantities of glassware located both inside the house and in a vehicle and precursor chemicals inside a toolbox.

Police will allege there was also a mobile clandestine laboratory at the property.