A Roxburgh Park man is facing firearms and drug charges following a nationwide police operation targeting the trafficking and use of illicit firearms.
Law enforcement agencies across Australia seized 523 firearms last week as part of the national week of action.
Over the course of the week, the Illicit Firearms Squad, with assistance from VIPER Taskforce, local police and other specialist units, Australian Border Force and the Australian Federal Police, executed 33 search warrants and conducted 78 Firearm Prohibition Order (FPO) compliance searches.
In Victoria, 80 firearms, 18 imitation firearms and 75 firearm parts were seized, 35 people were arrested and 189 charges were laid across the week.
A 29-year-old Roxburgh Park man was among those charged. He was served with a FPO and charged with possessing an unregistered handgun, trafficking drugs of dependence, possessing property suspected of being proceeds of crime, possessing cartridge ammunition, committing an indictable offence whilst on bail and various other firearm and drug offences.
Police said they seized $192,360 in Australian currency, a loaded handgun, ammunition, about 200 ecstasy tablets, a small quality of cannabis, prescription medication and 3D printed firearm parts.
