POLICE have cracked down on Wagga's outstanding criminals with two unrelated arrests made within minutes of each other today.
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The arrests come as part of Operation Flux under Traffic South West, which targets traffic offences and other outstanding warrants in the Riverina, Murrumbidgee and Murray River police districts.
The first incident occurred at about 7.20am on Thursday, where police attended a home on Flynn Place, Tolland, in relation to a man wanted on outstanding warrants for domestic violence-related offences.
Officers found the 23-year-old hiding in the property's kitchen and arrested him, with subsequent checks also revealing the man was allegedly contravening a DVO.
He was charged with contravene prohibition/restriction in AVO, and the outstanding warrants were executed. The man was refused bail to appear in Wagga Local Court the same day.
In a second incident just 20 minutes later in the same suburb, police stopped a Victorian registered Range Rover Sport on Glenfield Road.
The 32-year-old man driving the car was subjected to a roadside drug test, which allegedly returned a positive result for methamphetamine.
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Officers searched the man and his car, and allegedly found a glass smoking pipe as well as about 1.5 grams of methamphetamine in his underwear. They also located more than $8000 in cash.
The man was arrested and taken to Wagga Police Station where he underwent further testing. He was issued a court attendance notice for possession of a prohibited drug and will appear in Wagga Local Court on February 3, 2021.
During the operation, officers executed nine warrants, laid 10 charges for other offences, searched 11 people and nine vehicles, and carried out 232 breath tests and 90 random drug tests across the south west region.