Police arrested 12 people during a five-day operation in Greater Shepparton.
Two men accused of armed robbery and a stabbing, and a woman accused of burgling a bank were among 12 people arrested during a series of warrants across Greater Shepparton in mid-September.
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Specialist police from Melbourne travelled to the Goulburn Valley to conduct search warrants alongside the Shepparton Crime Investigation Unit, Divisional Response Unit and the Dog Squad, targeting known alleged offenders and those subject to firearm prohibition orders in Shepparton, Mooroopna, Numurkah and Tatura.
This was a localised effort as part of the Australia New Zealand International Drug Working Group national operation targeting illicit drugs.
In five days, efforts by the Eastern Region Crime Squad and local detectives resulted in 69 charges being laid in relation to alleged armed robbery, arson, drug trafficking, burglary, assaults, theft and weapon offences, possessing proceeds of crime, and bail offences.
Twelve people were arrested, while 11 search warrants were executed and six firearm prohibition order compliance checks were done.
During the five days two weapons and one imitation firearm were seized by police, as were methamphetamines, GHB, ecstasy, cannabis and peptides.
Arrests of note included two men, aged 32 and 20, who were arrested following an alleged armed robbery and stabbing in Mooroopna on September 4.
The men were located at a property on Kakadu Dve, Shepparton, where police seized methamphetamines, GHB, ecstasy and cannabis.
Both were charged with armed robbery, theft, intentionally causing injury and possessing a controlled weapon.
The 32-year-old was also charged with drug trafficking and possession offences, while the 20-year-old was also charged with unlawful assault.
The 32-year-old was remanded in custody, while the 20-year-old was bailed.
Also charged was a 44-year-old Shepparton woman who was arrested on Tuesday, September 15, following an alleged burglary at a bank on Wyndham St, Shepparton three days earlier.
She was charged with burglary, three counts of theft and committing an indictable offence while on bail.
She was granted bail, and investigations remain ongoing.
Police bring out evidence after one of the searches.
A 27-year-old man and 35-year-old woman were also arrested at a motel following a search warrant at a unit on Graham St, Shepparton.
Detectives seized an imitation firearm, ammunition, cannabis, peptides, mobile phones and cash from the unit, and almost 5kg of cannabis from the motel room.
The pair were charged with cultivating, trafficking and possessing cannabis, and possessing proceeds of crime.
The man was also charged with being a prohibited person possessing an imitation firearm.
Both were bailed.
A 38-year-old Mooroopna woman was also arrested in Shepparton and charged with arson.
The charges relate to two alleged incidents in March causing damage to a home and car in Mooroopna.
Police allege she fled the state following the incident, before returning to Shepparton in mid-September.
The woman was bailed from court.
A 27-year-old man was arrested during a firearm prohibition order search at a home on Annette Crt, Shepparton.
There, officers seized a push dagger and a set of knuckledusters as well as methamphetamines, cannabis and prescription medication.
He was charged with two counts of possessing a prohibited weapon, and possessing methamphetamines and schedule four and eight poisons.
He was bailed.
A 31-year-old woman at the home was also given a cannabis caution by police.
