Ballarat Crime Investigation Unit detectives and Ballarat Divisional Response Unit officers have charged a man following a firearms incident in Mount Pleasant on Wednesday.
It is alleged shots were fired from a vehicle in the direction of a house on Pryor Street just before 12.30pm on 6 November.
Two people were home at the time, but no one was injured.
Detectives, with assistance from the Special Operations Group, executed a search warrant at an address on Willow Grove, Wendouree about 6pm yesterday.
A 20-year-old man was arrested at the property.
Police searched the property and located an allegedly stolen rifle, ammunition, and a stolen VW T-ROC SUV.
The Wendouree man has been charged with:
• discharge shot at premises with reckless disregard for safety,
• reckless conduct endanger life
• possess firearm in contravention of firearm prohibition order
• prohibited person use a firearm
• possess a loaded firearm in a public place
• burglary
• theft of motor vehicle.
He has been remanded in custody to appear before the Ballarat Magistrates’ Court today, Friday 8 November.
