A man will face court today charged following the seizure of cash, firearms and drugs during a search warrant in the state’s central west yesterday.
About 3.45pm (Thursday 26 October 2023), officers attached to Central West Police District executed a search warrant at a home on Orchard Grove Road, Orange, as part of investigations into the alleged supply of prohibited drugs and stolen property.
During the search, officers located cannabis, drug paraphernalia, rifles, a gel blaster, ammunition, six motorcycles, a quad bike, power tools and equipment, and a safe containing jewellery, methylamphetamine and more than $19,000 in cash.
These items were seized to undergo forensic examination.
A 42-year-old man was arrested at the property and taken to Orange Police Station, where he was charged with nine offences, including:
- possess prohibited drug,
- possess unauthorised pistol,
- two counts of possess unauthorised firearm,
- two counts of possess ammunition without holding licence/permit/authority,
- two counts of deal with property proceeds of crime, and
- supply prohibited drug.
He was refused bail to appear at Orange Local Court today (Friday 27 October 2023).
