A 16-YEAR-OLD boy has been found by police hiding underneath a mattress with a shortened shortgun nearby in Leeton.
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About 1.15pm on Tuesday, May 31, officers attached to Murrumbidgee Police District attended a home in Kurrajong Avenue to make inquiries into an alleged break and enter that occurred the day before.
Police said they located and arrested a 16-year-old boy, who was found hiding underneath a mattress. Officers also located a shortened shot gun nearby.
A crime scene was established and officers arrested two further people at the home - a 24-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman.
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After further investigations, police executed a search warrant at the home locating ammunition and other items believed to be stolen property.
All three were taken to Leeton police station, where the older man was charged with possess prohibited drug, not keep firearm safely, possess unregistered firearm, possess ammunition without holding licence/permit/authority, possess shortened firearm (not pistol) without authority, and two counts of goods suspected stolen in/on premises.
The woman was charged with not keep firearm safely, possess unregistered firearm, possess ammunition without holding licence/permit/authority, possess shortened firearm (not pistol) without authority, and two counts of goods suspected stolen in/on premises.
Both were refused bail to appear at Griffith Local Court on Wednesday June 1.
The 16-year-old boy was charged with a number of unrelated break and enter and fraud offences. He was refused bail to appear at a children's court also on Wednesday, June 1.
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