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An eight-year-old girl was found watching cartoons with a loaded pistol beneath her and a stun gun and sawn-off shotgun nearby during a police raid on drug dealers in Wellington.
Her father was one of more than 30 people in Wellington city, Kapiti Mana and Upper Hutt arrested during a five-day sting on mid and low-level cannabis dealers this week.
Detective Senior Sergeant Darrin Thomson, head of Wellington metro crime unit, told the Dominion Post the girl was watching television with a loaded pistol beneath the mattress she was sitting on when police arrived to search her father's house.
A pump-action .22 shotgun, a sawn-off shotgun, a semi-automatic pistol, a stun gun and ammunition, as well as methamphetamine, LSD, and cannabis were also found at the house.
One of the men arrested on drugs charges was on home detention at the time.
- NZPA
