<\/b>Police have located and seized a firearm found in a vehicle after a crash east of Wagga Wagga early yesterday morning.<\/p>\n
Just after 1am (Saturday 21 November 2015), police and emergency services were called to Sturt Highway, Borambola, following reports a white Nissan Pulsar had crashed.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old male driver was treated at the scene by Ambulance paramedics for minor injuries.<\/p>\n
Police located cash on the man and a Browning semi-automatic 9mm pistol and ammunition in his vehicle. The items were seized.<\/p>\n
The Ambarvale man was arrested and taken to Wagga Wagga Base Hospital for further treatment before being taken to Wagga Wagga Police Station.<\/p>\n
He was charged with possess pistol, possess unregistered firearm, not keep firearm safely, possess ammunition, goods in personal custody suspected being stolen, drive motor vehicle during disqualification period, and drive recklessly\/furiously or speed\/manner dangerous.<\/p>\n
He has been refused bail to appear at Wagga Wagga Local Court later today (Sunday 22 November 2015).<\/p>\n
Police from Wagga Wagga Local Area Command were also told there were two female passengers in the car at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n
Officers conducted an extensive search of the area at the time of the crash; however the women were not located.<\/p>\n
The pair later presented to Wagga Wagga Police Station where they assisted detectives with their inquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police have located and seized a firearm found in a vehicle after a crash east of Wagga Wagga early yesterday morning. Just after 1am (Saturday 21 November 2015), police and emergency services were called to Sturt Highway, Borambola, following reports a white Nissan Pulsar had crashed. The 24-year-old male driver was treated at the scene … Continue reading “Man charged after firearm located in vehicle after crash – Wagga Wagga”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}