An alleged drug dealer has been charged with owning what police believe could be a replica gun that looks like a mobile phone, as they try to work out whether it can be used as a firearm.
WA Police searched a house on Cassinia Street in Baldivis, south of Perth, earlier this month.
They seized a range of items, including more than $100,000 in cash, live ammunition, flick knives and drug paraphernalia.
Among the items was the mobile phone, which police said could be folded to appear as a replica firearm.
Police said ballistic testing, which studies the performance of a firearm, is underway to determine whether it can be operated as a gun.
On Saturday, a 31-year-old man was arrested at a shopping centre in Mandurah.
He was charged with a string of drug and weapon offences, including one count of being an unlicensed person possessing a firearm.
He was refused bail and is due to appear in the Perth Magistrates Court on Friday.
On the same day as the first search, police searched another home on Bellingham Parade in Wellard, where they located an alleged drug distribution station in the garage.
Police seized more than 1kg of cocaine and more than 160 grams of MDMA.
A 25-year-old woman was charged with two counts of possessing prohibited drugs with the intention to sell or supply.
She appeared in Rockingham Magistrates Court on Monday.
