Echo Taskforce Detectives have charged four people and seized firearms, cash and drugs following the theft of two tow trucks and a firearms incident in Mickleham.
Police will allege that around 5.30am on Sunday, July 9, three people broke into a heavy haulage depot on Technical Drive in Craigieburn, where they are said to have stolen two Kenworth tow trucks.
CCTV alerted the victims to the theft, and they tracked the location of the allegedly stolen trucks via GPS.
When the victim arrived at the location of one of the trucks on Rosehill Boulevard in Mickleham, a man exiting the vehicle fired two shots in his direction.
He was physically unharmed during the incident.
With the assistance of Air Wing, the second vehicle was located in Roxburgh Park and intercepted by Police from Broadmeadows.
A 42-year-old Craigieburn woman and a 36-year-old Meadow Heights man were arrested at the scene and subsequently charged with theft of motor vehicle and possess drug of dependence.
The woman was bailed to appear at Broadmeadows Magistrates’ Court on November 7.
The man was remanded to appear at Broad-meadows Magistrates’ Court on October 2.
With the assistance of the Special Operations Group, a 34-year-old Glenroy man, believed to have discharged the firearm on Sunday, was arrested about 4.30pm on Monday, July 10.
A significant quantity of cash, as well as quantities of what appear to be methylamphetamine and 1,4-Butanediol and a round of ammunition were seized from his vehicle.
A search warrant was executed at his Glenroy address on July 11where police subsequently located an AR-15 assault rifle, a WW2 Thompson submachine gun, a handgun, a gel blaster handgun, detonation cords and ammunition.