CARDINIA: Firearm found at Pakenham
Detectives from the Armed Crime Squad charged a man and a woman as part of an investigation into firearm possession.
A search warrant was executed at a residential address in Pakenham on Wednesday morning (May 14).
A 22-year-old woman was arrested in a vehicle outside the address.
Investigators searched her car, resulting in the seizure of a slam gun (a homemade shotgun) and four cartridges of shotgun ammunition.
A search warrant was previously executed at the address on February 21 and a semi-automatic handgun was seized.
A man and a woman, both 22-years-old and from Pakenham, were arrested and interviewed by investigators.
They have both been charged with two counts of possess handgun and two counts of possess ammunition.
The duo was bailed to appear at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on August 25.