Gold Coast suburb locked down after firearms, grenades surrendered
The surrender of a cache of weapons including three grenades has prompted the evacuation of an office building on the northern Gold Coast.
Police have launched a manhunt for a driver who fired a gun at another driver after a road range incident on the Gold Coast. (Image; ABC Dominic Consdale)
Specialist officers have revoked an emergency declaration after a man surrendered three grenades and three semi-automatic rifles at a lawyer’s office on Bay St, Southport, on Wednesday.
The streets around Bay St, where a number of lawyers’ offices are located, were roped off and residents in the exclusion zone were urged to stay in their homes for three hours.
No threats were made during the incident.
Gold Coast Police district duty officer Jim Winter says the grenades and rifles have been rendered safe and the street has been reopened, but detectives are investigating the incident.
“They are trying to track that person down to ask why they were delivered here and not [to] a police station,” he told ABC online.
“All semi-automatic rifles are illegal in Australia as far as I am aware, definitely they are in Queensland.”
