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Gun That Bends To Look Like A Phone Is Discovered In Drug Raid
- Mobile deploying on a weapon seized in drug raid
- Police tests to see if the apparent weapon works
- Two arrested for raids in which drugs and weapons were seized
Police have seized a device that looks like a mobile phone but unfolds to become a gun in a series of raids that have also identified 1kg of cocaine, ammunition, knives and other drugs over the past two weeks.
The apparent weapon disguised as a mobile phone was seized by Western Australian Police in a raid on a property in Baldivis, south of Perth, on February 15.
Police are running ballistic tests to see if it works as a firearm.
Also allegedly found during the raid were $115,000 in cash, ammunition, drug paraphernalia, a belt with a concealed knife, and 41 tablets of oxymetholone, which is an anabolic steroid.
A short time later, police in the southern Perth suburb of Wellard raided what they said was a ‘drug distribution station’ in a garage, where it is 1.03 kg of cocaine and 163 g of MDMA were allegedly seized.
WA Police confiscated a mobile that unfolds to reveal a handgun in drug busts south of Perth
Police have been conducting ballistics tests on the device to see if it is a working firearm.
On February 17, police requested public assistance in locating William John Fleming in connection with the raids.
He was arrested on Saturday afternoon on Smart Street in Mandurah, also south of Perth.
Police allege that a search of his vehicle turned up 58g of methamphetamine and more than $1000 in cash.
Fleming was charged with nine offenses, including breach of bail, possession of prohibited drugs with intent to sell or supply, possession of a firearm or ammunition, possession of a prohibited weapon, and money laundering.
He appeared at Perth Magistrates Court on Sunday and was denied bail to appear again on March 3.
A 25-year-old woman from Wellard was also charged with possession of a prohibited drug with intent to sell or supply.
She will appear at Rockingham Magistrates Court on April 3.