A laptop tracker led police to arrest three men and seize numerous firearms, ammunition, a conducted energy device (commonly known as a Taser), drugs and cash from a property in Sunshine North yesterday.
Police received a report of a theft from motor vehicle about 1pm yesterday, with an Altona woman claiming that her Mazda was broken into while parked on Maidstone Street in Altona sometime between 11.50pm on 1 October and 2.30pm on 2 October.
It is alleged a number of items were stolen from the vehicle including a laptop with tracking software.
The woman used the tracking software and identified the laptop was possibly on Holehouse Street, Sunshine North.
Detectives and members of the Operations Response Unit (ORU), went to the street and after speaking to numerous residents obtained a search warrant for a particular house.
Police searched the property and found the laptop along with four firearms, ammunition, a conducted energy device, cash and an amount of drugs.
Three men were arrested at the scene.
Two men, both aged 27, have been charged with firearms, drug, ammunition, weapons and property offences.
Do Nguyen, of no fixed address, and Armindeer Singh, from Sunshine, faced an out of session’s court hearing last night and were remanded in custody.
Both will face Melbourne Magistrates’ Court this morning.
The other man, a 26-year-old from St Albans, was charged with firearms and drug offences and has ben bailed to appear at Sunshine Magistrates’ Court on 21 December.
