Man charged after man found with gunshot wound in crashed car at Roxburgh Park
Charges have been laid after a man was found with a gunshot wound inside a wrecked car that had crashed through a fence and into a tree at a park in Melbourne’s north.
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Charges have been laid after a Reservoir man was found wounded after a car smash.
A 30-year-old Roxburgh Park man was arrested in Kingsbury on Tuesday night in relation to the incident and faces counts over the shooting and allegations of gun-trafficking.
He was detained by the special operations group after an armed crime squad investigation.
The victim, aged 30, was left fighting for life after the incident, in which he and a female passenger crashed their car in Roxburgh Park.
The Reservoir man had a gunshot wound to the lower body and injuries from when his car ploughed into a tree at the corner of Douglas Cameron Drive and Bridgewater Rd at 7pm on Sunday.
He remains in hospital in a stable condition.
A Kalkallo woman, 26, was treated for minor injuries.
After the Kingsbury arrest, ACS investigators and detectives from the illicit firearms squad raided properties at Kingsbury and South Morang.
A 28-year-old woman was arrested at the South Morang property.
Police say a handgun, imitation firearms, gun parts, ammunition, cash, identification documents and substances believed to be drugs were seized at Kingsbury.
Knuckle dusters and substances believed to be drugs were allegedly uncovered and seized at South Morang.
The man charged over the Roxburgh Park incident faces counts of intentionally causing serious injury, recklessly causing serious injury, reckless conduct endangering life, reckless conduct endangering serious injury, being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm, being a prohibited person using a firearm, possession of methylamphetamine and vehicle theft.
IFS officers involved in separate inquiry charged him with four counts of firearm theft, possession of a traffickable quantity of firearms and being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm
He was remanded to face Melbourne Magistrates’ Court at a later date.
The South Morang woman faces six counts of theft of firearms, trafficking more than two firearms, possession of a prohibited weapon and possession of a drug of dependence.
She was bailed to face court at a later date.
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