By Cam Lucadou-Wells
An ice trafficker told police that “you boys won’t be happy with me” prior to revealing a loaded sawn-off shotgun stashed in the front of his ute, Dandenong Magistrates’ Court heard.
Dylan Markovic, 30, of Derrimut, told police of the 12-gauge single-barrel gun when arrested near Kemp Street, Springvale in the early hours of 11 February.
He said that he’d paid $500 of meth for the firearm in Springvale a week earlier.
The Western Arms Co shotgun, loaded with a red 12-gauge round, was capable of firing, police told the court on 21 April.
Magistrate Suzette Dootjes asked why Markovic bought the gun, and why he stored it – loaded – in the front of the ute.