Police have arrested and charged three men after an investigation into the supply of methamphetamine and possession of unregistered firearms in Tamworth.<\/p>\n
About 9.50am yesterday (Thursday 3 March 2016), police from Oxley Local Area Command executed simultaneous search warrants at addresses on Wallabadah Road, Wallabadah, and Dandaloo Street, Tamworth.<\/p>\n
At the Wallabadah address police located 6 unregistered firearms including a sawn-off shotgun and a semi-automatic .32 calibre pistol, as well as assorted ammunition.<\/p>\n
Also allegedly found in the home were 140 grams of crystal methamphetamine (ice), along with an amount of cash. Property suspected of being stolen was also located.<\/p>\n
Police arrested three men at Wallabadah address, aged 51, 48 and 38, who were taken to Tamworth Police Station.<\/p>\n
The 51-year-old was charged with 16 offences including supply prohibited drug, knowingly deal with proceeds of crime, and a range of firearm offences.<\/p>\n
The 48-year-old man was charged with firearm offences.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old man was charged with possess prohibited drug and firearm offences.<\/p>\n
They were all refused bail to appear at Tamworth Local Court today (Friday 4 March 2016).<\/p>\n
At the Dandaloo Street, Tamworth address, police seized an amount of crystal methamphetamine (ice), as well as a small amount of cannabis leaf, shotgun cartridges and a set of nunchuks.<\/p>\n
A 51-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman were spoken to at the address and inquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police have arrested and charged three men after an investigation into the supply of methamphetamine and possession of unregistered firearms in Tamworth. About 9.50am yesterday (Thursday 3 March 2016), police from Oxley Local Area Command executed simultaneous search warrants at addresses on Wallabadah Road, Wallabadah, and Dandaloo Street, Tamworth. At the Wallabadah address police located … Continue reading “Three charged after drug and firearm raids – Wallabadah, Tamworth”<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","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=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}