Alexander Meier: Croydon Park man faces Downing Centre District Court after firearms, weapons, assault charges
A former security guard who had an illegal haul of weapons and brandished a shotgun at someone’s face has been busted with yet another stash of firearms after police searched his home.
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A former security guard who was on trial after he brandished a shotgun in someone’s face was busted with yet another stash of illegal weapons after police searched his home earlier this year.
Croydon Park man, Alexander Meier, who is also listed as living in Bankstown on court files, fronted Downing Centre District Court on Friday.
Meier, aged 45, was found guilty at trial of a string of offences including assault occasioning actual bodily harm, two counts of using a weapon with the intention of committing an indictable offence and possessing a prohibited weapon without a permit.
Some charges related to the former security guard using a taser to intimidate someone, brandishing a shotgun in someone’s face and using part of the gun to hit someone in the back, the court heard.
Meier had also pleaded guilty to possessing multiple firearms, including a shortened shotgun, at an earlier date.
The court heard he was also busted with an extendable baton, bullet proof vest, ammunition and meth.
On Friday, Meier’s sentencing was delayed because the 45-year-old was sprung hoarding another stash of weapons earlier this year.
The court heard Meier received a firearms prohibition order on February 6 and only two days later — while he was still in the community on bail, awaiting sentencing — police found gel blasters in his home.
Meier has since pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing an unauthorised pistol, two counts of acquiring a pistol while subject to a firearms prohibition order, using a prohibited weapon contrary to a prohibition order and possessing a prohibited weapon without a permit.
In court, the defence barrister said the gel blasters might have simply been overlooked during an earlier search.
“It’s the offender’s chaotic living circumstances that probably led to that set of circumstances arising,” he said.
However, the Crown said there remained the possibility Meier had acquired these weapons more recently.
“(Regardless) he would have been under no mistake that he was not a person who was entitled to possess those items,” the prosecution lawyer said.
The court also heard Meier was an intelligent and well-educated man who had a “very troubling” history and had subsequently developed a “fascination” with firearms and weapons.
Judge Ian Bourke reserved his judgment. The matter will return to court for sentencing on June 21.
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