{"id":482857,"date":"2025-12-31T17:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/482857\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:25:16","slug":"burnie-man-charged-after-police-locate-gel-blaster-in-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/482857\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnie man charged after police locate gel blaster in house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Burnie man has been charged with a firearms offence after detectives uncovered a gel blaster during a raid on his home.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from Operation Scelus searched the 35-year-old\u2019s property on Wednesday morning, allegedly locating the device.<\/p>\n<p>The man was charged with possessing a firearm to which a licence may not be issued, as well as several minor offences.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to face the Burnie Magistrates Court on May 12.<\/p>\n<p>In Tasmania, gel blasters that have the appearance of a firearm are classified as prohibited weapons, making them illegal to possess without specific authorisation.<\/p>\n<p>The charges come as authorities continue to crack down on the possession of imitation firearms across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Police have urged anyone with information about illegal firearms, including gel blasters, to contact them on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Burnie man has been charged with a firearms offence after detectives uncovered a gel blaster during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":482858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-482857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115815352129566070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}