A 25-year-old man has been arrested following a swift operation involving specialist police at a Geelong service station.
The 25-year-old was taken into custody on the Surf Coast Highway on Thursday morning.
A Victoria Police spokesman told the Geelong Advertiser the man is currently assisting detectives from the Warrnambool crime investigation unit into ongoing firearms incidents.
Witnesses described heavily armed members of the Special Operations Group (SOG) apprehend the suspect just after 10.20am in the APCO car park.
The unit assists other police in planned operations involving the apprehension of potentially dangerous suspects, and respond to unplanned operational critical incidents such as sieges and siege hostage situations, armed offender tasks and bomb response incidents.
“The investigation into ongoing firearms incidents in the Warrnambool area remains ongoing and it would be inappropriate to comment any further,” the police spokeswoman said.
Specialist police arrest a man on Greenwood St, Newcomb on May 23.
The arrest comes two days after specialist police arrested a Newcomb man in connection to an alleged Melton burglary, where police say shots were fired and a man was left with knife wounds to his face.
Police used a megaphone to order the man out of the property on Greenwood Street on Tuesday, May 23.
He was seen crawling on his hands and knees before he was cuffed, using cable ties, and placed in the back of a vehicle.
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