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An Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) warrant has led to the discovery of various weapons, illegal drugs, clandestine laboratory equipment, ammunition and cash.

ACBPS officers, with assistance from Victoria Police, executed the Customs warrant at a 37-year-old man’s address in Reservoir yesterday morning (10 June 2015) following an investigation.

Since March 2015, ACBPS officers at the Melbourne Gateway Facility intercepted 10 cargo consignments from the United States, Italy, Hong Kong and China containing prohibited weapons, including BB Rifles, Airguns and firearms related items. All items seized were identified as Tier 2 Goods controlled under the Customs Regulations 1926.

The June 10 warrant yielded extensive results, including the seizure of:

• 24 prohibited bladed weapons
• 13 BB guns
• 2 Knuckledusters
• Firearm parts
• Fireworks
• Approximately 7 grams Marijuana
• Approximately 377 grams Heroin
• 2 prohibited lasers
• 9 handcuffs
• 1 taser
• machinery used to manufacture firearms, and
• approximately $100,000 cash.

Victoria Police subsequently arrested the man and he was charged with a number of offences, including possessing proceeds of crime, trafficking a commercial quantity of heroin, possessing and using heroin, possessing and using cannabis, possessing a prohibited and controlled weapon, possessing an explosive substance and possessing fireworks while unlicensed.

The man will also face charges from ACBPS under section 233BAB of the Customs Act 1901.

 

One-year sporting ban for AFL player Ryan Crowley 

The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) today acknowledged the Australian Football League Anti-Doping Tribunal’s decision to impose a one-year ban on Fremantle Dockers player Ryan Crowley, for the presence of a prohibited substance. Mr Crowley returned a positive test from a sample collected in-competition on 13 July 2014 at the club’s round 17 match against Greater Western Sydney Giants.

Sporting Schools Programme for a healthy lifestyle

Netball Australia has joined the Australian Government’s $100 million Sporting Schools programme to help schools increase the number of children playing sport. PDF printable version of Australian children shooting towards a healthy lifestyle (PDF 258 KB). In the lead up to the Diamonds representing Australia in the Netball World Cup in Sydney, primary schools across the country are being offered a new Sporting Schools pilot programme as part of the Abbott Government’s plan to get more children active and healthy through sport.