Westgate Divisional Response Unit Detectives have charged a man and seized a quantity of drugs and a firearm in Maidstone on Thursday, May 16.
As a result of an ongoing drug trafficking investigation, Investigators arrested a man in a vehicle at about 9.30am on Thursday.
A subsequent search of the vehicle and located a loaded firearm, an amount of cash and a commercial quantity of various drugs in his car.
After seizing the items, police executed a search warrant at an address in Maidstone.
Investigators located and seized further commercial quantities of methylamphetamine and a shotgun.
The 34-year-old man was charged with trafficking a large commercial quantity of drugs, possess drug of dependence and prohibited person possess a firearm.
He was remanded to appear before Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on May 17.
