05/14/2022 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/13/2022 19:59
Saturday, 14 May 2022 11:40:25 AM
PLEASE NOTE: Images have been uploaded to the South Coast Police District Facebook page
A man has been charged with firearm and driving offences following a vehicle stop on the South Coast yesterday.
About 10.30pm (Friday 13 May 2022), officers from South Coast Police District stopped an unregistered Holden Commodore on the Princes Highway, North Batemans Bay.
Police spoke to the driver - a 40-year-old man - and inquiries revealed he was disqualified from driving.
During a subsequent search of the vehicle, officers seized a crossbow, a black suitcase containing one
shortened .22 rifle, a shortened 12-gauge shotgun and one shortened smaller gauge shotgun, along with
ammunition suited to all three firearms.
The driver was arrested and taken to Batemans Bay Police Station where he was charged with the following offences:
The Batemans Bay man was refused bail to appear before Wollongong Local Court today (Saturday 14 May 2022).
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