{"id":837062,"date":"2026-08-01T04:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837062\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T04:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:24:13","slug":"teen-boy-caught-hooning-in-sydney-car-park-with-glock-pistol-down-his-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837062\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen boy caught hooning in Sydney car park with Glock pistol down his pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 17-year-old boy allegedly caught doing burnouts in a ute with a pistol down his pants has been charged with a string of weapons and traffic offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">NSW Police said officers patrolling Villawood in Western Sydney witnessed the car doing burnouts in a Bunnings car park on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police arrested the teenage driver at the scene and checks revealed he was disqualified from driving 12 months ago and the number plates were not registered to that car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police allegedly found one Glock pistol down the front of his pants.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Items on bonnet of white car bright lights around\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/364f45d4c615a0d8bea111d20f3f4689.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police said weapons, cannabis and number plates were seized from the car. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Another Glock firearm was found in the car as were two knives, a balaclava, cannabis and another set of number plates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was taken to Cabramatta Police Station where he was charged with 10 offences, including weapons, drug and six driving offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A witness named Anwar said it was not uncommon for such events to take place in the area but this was &#8220;too much&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of families and people just want to hang out, there&#8217;s too much drama,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was scheduled to appear at Parramatta Children&#8217;s Court on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy allegedly caught doing burnouts in a ute with a pistol down his pants has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17405,100945,894,43,409080,44,123658,22810,41,39,42,40,300880],"class_list":["post-837062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-boy","tag-car-park","tag-glock","tag-headlines","tag-hoon","tag-news","tag-pistol","tag-teen","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-villawood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837062","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=837062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}