Officers from the Sunshine Coast Tactical Crime Squad arrested a man on multiple drugs and weapons charges in Sunshine Beach yesterday (June 7).
Around 11.30am police executed a search warrant at a Ben Lexcen Drive address, where a 26-year-old man was taken into custody after allegedly being found hiding in an upstairs bedroom and attempting to flee via a window.
Police will allege the man violently resisted arrest, struggling and striking out, assaulting officers. A taser was deployed and the man taken into custody.
It will be alleged a search of a vehicle located at the address uncovered a shortened firearm.
Detectives charged the man with 15 offences including three counts of possess dangerous drugs (methylamphetamine and cannabis), two counts each of serious assault police, no authority to possess explosives (ammunition) and fail to dispose of a syringe. He has also been charged with one count each of possess a shortened firearm, possess property suspected as being used in the commission of a drug offence, possess utensil, fail to dispose of syringe, possess schedule 4 medicine without excuse and wilful damage.
He was denied police bail and is due to appeared in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court today.
