Just before 9am today (Wednesday 30 June 2021), officers attached to Lake Illawarra Police District executed a search warrant at a home on Charles Avenue, Minnamurra, where they located a well-established indoor hydroponic set up.

During the search, police seized more than 1.5kg of loose cannabis, four cannabis plants, methylamphetamine, and weapons including knuckle dusters, a sling shot, extendable batons and ammunition.

A 28 year old Minnamurra man was arrested at the scene and taken to Lake Illawarra Police Station, where he was charged with cultivating a prohibited plant, possessing ammunition, possessing a prohibited drug, supplying a prohibited drug, and six counts of possessing a prohibited weapon.

He was granted conditional bail to appear in Port Kembla Local Court on Wednesday 1 September 2021.