A 16-year-old boy has been charged after police found him riding a motorbike with an unregistered, loaded, homemade firearm in his possession, along a Narrabri road on Saturday night.
Traffic and Highway Patrol officers were conducting a vehicle stop on Cooma Road about 8.15pm on Saturday, 13 June when they spotted the motorbike bogged in an embankment. The rider, a teenage boy, was not wearing a helmet.
What police found when they searched him was more alarming.
The boy was carrying a homemade firearm loaded with a .22-calibre round, along with a case holding a further 30 rounds of .22-calibre ammunition and 345 slug-gun pellets.
The teen was arrested and taken to Narrabri Police Station, where he was charged with two counts of possessing ammunition without a licence, possessing a loaded firearm in a public place, possessing an unauthorised firearm, and possessing an unregistered firearm in a public place.
He was granted strict conditional bail and is due to appear before a children’s court on Tuesday, 28 July.
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