A man found sleeping in his car is facing serious charges after police discovered several illegal items in the vehicle while doing a welfare check in Auckland’s Sylvia Park.<\/p>\n
Police said they had initially found the man “slumped over the wheel” of his vehicle at around 3.30pm.<\/p>\n
Police Counties Manukau west area response manager Senior Sergeant Steve Albrey said officers wanted to ensure the man wasn’t experiencing a medical emergency and ascertain whether he needed any help.<\/p>\n
“However, as they approached the vehicle and looked in, they spotted a double-barrel shotgun, which was cocked open, and a broken meth pipe in the front passenger footwell.”<\/p>\n
The man was woken from his rest and arrested. A search warrant was also invoked, which unearthed further illicit items.<\/p>\n
Albrey said officers located a .22 calibre Ruger in the back footwell which “had 10 rounds in the magazine”.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlongside the firearm were 60 additional rounds, which is some serious fire power.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said it was a “good catch by our staff” who were “in the right place at the right time”.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat started out as concern for a person\u2019s well being led to these items being taken off the street, and an alleged offender having to answer to his actions in court.\u201d<\/p>\n
A 42-year-old man is set to appear in the Manukau District Court today charged with four counts of unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man found sleeping in his car is facing serious charges after police discovered several illegal items in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-165399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}