‘Pretty suspicious’: NZ man’s shocking find while metal detecting

Dan O’Donnell, 42, was eager to check out a metallic detector for the primary time.

On Wednesday, he went out to Wellington Town Belt and inside 5 minutes he bought a sign. He instantly began digging.

His first and most surreal discovery was two firearms together with a bunch of bullets and knives in “well-wrapped” packages.

O’Donnell stated he borrowed a metallic detector from a good friend a few days in the past to check out the pastime.

“I was casually giving it a go. I’d only been doing it for about five minutes and I got the signal and then it took a long time to try and get it [buried material] out.

“It was simply buried proper in the course of an outdated path.”

The guns, bullets and other stuff was wrapped in packages about 30 centimetres underground, he said.

“It was fairly massive. It took fairly a very long time to get it out and it had these tree roots grown over it.”

When O’Donnell pulled the packages out of the ground, he knew it was something “fairly suspicious”.

“I did not know what it was after which I pulled it out. It was such lengthy bag.

“It had many layers of things over them and 11 of the layers was newspaper dated 1993.

“I had opened certainly one of them a bit bit simply to verify that it was truly a gun… after which I referred to as the police.”

The police came straight away, he said.

“They [police officers] opened all of it up they usually advised me it was AK-47.

“Apparently they [guns] are an AK-47 and pump action shotgun, along with a bunch of accessories and ammo.

O’Donnell, who lives in Newtown, said the firearms and ammunition seemed to be there for a long time.

“I did not really feel like there was any threat round it.

“There were newspapers dating 1993, and tree roots had grown over it so definitely looked like it had been there for 30 years.”

A police spokesperson advised Stuff at round 12:45pm [on Wednesday], they acquired a report {that a} man had uncovered two firearms buried off of Russell Terrace.

“A forensic examination of the located items will be conducted.”