A 20-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly used a firearm from within a vehicle in Condobolin on Saturday 12 April around 10am. 

Following further inquiries, police attended a residence on Kookaburra Street in Parkes later that day around 3:30pm and arrested the suspect. 

• five counts of stalking/intimidation intending fear and physical harm
• two counts of possessing an unauthorised, prohibited firearm
• firing a firearm in or near a public place
• being carried in a conveyance taken without consent of the owner
• possession of a prohibited drug.

He was refused bail and appeared before Parramatta Local Court on Sunday 13 April where he was refused bail again. 

His arrest was part of a three-day blitz under Operation Soteria, established to target youth crime in the western and northern regional areas of the state from Thursday 10 April to Saturday 12 April.

Officers attached to the Central West Police District - as well as Traffic and Highway Patrol Command, Youth Command, Aviation Command, and Western Region Operational Support Group - were deployed to the state's Central West for the operation. 

Over the three days, ten people were charged with a total of 32 offences. 

Investigations under Operation Soteria are ongoing.