Doreen: Berth St house allegedly used to make homemade firearms
Average home or gun workshop? Police have allegedly found homemade firearms, explosive devices, weapons and drugs in a house in Melbourne’s northeast. And they believe the guns were being tested in a nearby park.
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A Doreen home has allegedly been used as a workshop for making homemade guns and explosive devices, with a range of weapons, ammunition and drugs also allegedly found inside.
Police raided the Berth St house after receiving multiple tip offs that guns allegedly made at the property were being tested in a nearby park, Heidelberg Magistrates Court has heard.
Owner of the house, Jason Kayll, fronted the court on Thursday, April 23, after special operations police carried out a search warrant the evening prior.
The court heard the landscape gardener had an alleged male housemate also accused of the crimes.
His housemate allegedly refused to let police into the house for an hour when they arrived about 6.30pm, then had to be pulled from a hiding spot in the roof when they finally entered.
Senior Constable Max Angus said police found a total of five homemade guns, including one that was loaded, inside the property, constituting a trafficable amount of firearms.
A large quantity of assorted ammunition was also found around the house, as well as firearm parts and other prohibited weapons, including knuckle dusters and an extendible baton.
The court heard three homemade explosive devices were also discovered, which experts had since verified, as well as a trafficable quantity of what was believed to be methamphetamine.
Police also uncovered a Whittlesea Council street sign and a bank card in another name.
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Sen Constable Angus told the court it was clear firearms were being manufactured at the property, with tools and metal materials used to make guns found strewn about.
He said police thought Kayll was an unacceptable risk to the community, with plenty of materials still at the home that could be used to allegedly make more homemade guns.
Magistrate Michael McNamara agreed there was too greater risk in releasing Kayll and refused his application for bail.