{"id":780036,"date":"2026-07-05T06:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780036\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T06:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:21:11","slug":"south-australia-news-man-charged-after-police-dog-makes-terrifying-discovery-at-adelaide-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780036\/","title":{"rendered":"South Australia news: Man charged after police dog makes terrifying discovery at Adelaide railway station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 48-year-old man has been charged after a handgun was found stashed inside a backpack at an Adelaide train station. <\/p>\n<p>South Australian police were patrolling the Adelaide Railway Station at 10.45pm on Saturday with Police Dog Fang, who officers say gave a positive indication to a man on the platform. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3198f5c3f1c60b374f84a537712fcc4919abe7a1ef8e17dd365bea536253d484.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">SA Police allegedly found a gun and ammunition in the man&#8217;s backpack.\u00a0South Australia Police<\/p>\n<p>Officers allegedly found methamphetamine on the man. <\/p>\n<p>After a further investigation, police say they discovered a 22 calibre semi-automatic handgun and ammunition in his backpack. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e70f80fe81d6f474b68a86cf84b0255895f7ce0e5afe2e62ac4b6ba7646b1510.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">A South Australian Police Dog prompted officers to investigate further. \u00a0South Australia Police<\/p>\n<p>Images release by police appear to show seven boxes of ammo, each containing dozens of bullets, as well as a leather holster, blue bag and the handgun in question.<\/p>\n<p>The man from Devon Park was arrested and charged with firearms offences and possessing a controlled drug. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bd4cdbe36ce8bd6673a2bf477e82321deb7fbf967cb653732b2ad3b7528f382d.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">SA Police Dog Fang\u00a0South Australia Police <\/p>\n<p>He did not apply for bail and will reappear in the Adelaide Magistrates court on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 48-year-old man has been charged after a handgun was found stashed inside a backpack at an Adelaide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-780036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}