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Automatic machine gun seized on Sunshine Coast

Police have seized an automatic machine gun after a search warrant was executed at a property in Coochin Creek on the Sunshine Coast on Thursday 16 December.

Officers from the Sunshine Coast Criminal Investigation Branch and Tactical Crime Squad conducted the search at the property along the Esplanade where the a automatic UZI type weapon was located along with a 9mm handgun, a large quantity of ammunition and a quantity of drugs.

A 55-year-old Coochin Creek man arrested and charged with two counts of unlawful possession of weapons, four counts of possess dangerous drugs (opiates, steroids, cannabis and MDMA) and one count each of authority required to possess explosives, receiving tainted property and possess utensils.

He was due to appear in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on 17 December.

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