Police Arrest Man After Mount Pleasant Shooting

Ballarat Crime Investigation Unit detectives and Ballarat Divisional Response Unit officers have charged a man following a firearms incident in Mount Pleasant on Wednesday.

It is alleged shots were fired from a vehicle in the direction of a house on Pryor Street just before 12.30pm on 6 November.

Two people were home at the time, but no one was injured.

Detectives, with assistance from the Special Operations Group, executed a search warrant at an address on Willow Grove, Wendouree about 6pm yesterday.

A 20-year-old man was arrested at the property.

Police searched the property and located an allegedly stolen rifle, ammunition, and a stolen VW T-ROC SUV.

The Wendouree man has been charged with:

• discharge shot at premises with reckless disregard for safety,

• reckless conduct endanger life

• possess firearm in contravention of firearm prohibition order

• prohibited person use a firearm

• possess a loaded firearm in a public place

• burglary

• theft of motor vehicle.

He has been remanded in custody to appear before the Ballarat Magistrates’ Court today, Friday 8 November.

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