NSW Police provided an image of the arrest. Photos: NSW Police.
A third man has been charged over the alleged shooting of a 48-year-old man in the Riverina last month.
About 11:20 pm on Wednesday, 19 August, officers from Murrumbidgee Police District responded to reports a man had presented to a medical facility in Burns Street at Hillston with a gunshot wound to his right leg.
The injury was not life-threatening.
Police were told the man had allegedly been shot in the backyard of a home in Burns Street before walking to the hospital.
Crime scenes were established at the Burns Street home and a parked vehicle in Shelly Street.
Police launched an investigation under Strike Force Voral, with two men already charged over the alleged shooting and remaining before the courts.
Following further inquiries, a 42-year-old man was arrested at a property in Gunbar on Friday, 4 September.
The arrest was carried out by officers from the Tactical Operations Unit, with assistance from Southern Region Tactical Operations Regional Support.
Police, assisted by the Rural Crime Prevention Team, Dog Unit and Wagga Wagga Crash Investigations Unit, then executed a search warrant at the property.
During the search, police allegedly located and seized four firearms, a crossbow, ammunition, various other weapons and an amount of prohibited drugs.
A firearm seized by police.
The man was taken to Griffith Police Station and charged with six offences:
- Discharging a firearm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm
- Acquiring a firearm subject to a prohibition order
- Supplying an unregistered firearm
- Acquiring ammunition subject to a prohibition order
- Using a prohibited weapon contrary to a prohibition order
- Failing to comply with a digital evidence access order direction.
He was refused bail to appear before Bail Division Court 5 on Saturday, 5 September.
He was formally refused bail and is due to appear in Griffith Local Court on Thursday, 10 September.
