Three teenagers have been arrested after allegedly threatening to shoot people with a replica firearm.

About 8.30pm on Thursday 12 September, Whyalla Police attended a shopping centre carpark on Nicolson Avenue after reports the occupants in a car were threatening to shoot people with what was believed to be a ball bearing gun.

Patrols were quickly on scene and spotted a black Nissan Navara being driven erratically and conducting burnouts in nearby scrubland.

Police stopped and searched the Nissan where they located a gel blaster handgun under the driver’s seat.  Three occupants in the car were arrested, two 16-year-old boys and a 17-year-old boy, all from Whyalla, were charged with firearm offences.

The 17-year-old driver was further charged with misusing a motor vehicle.  All three boys were granted police bail to appear in Whyalla Magistrates Court on 23 October.

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