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According to the Police Department, the weapons and ammunition were stored in the home of a man born in 1954 without permission around 11 p.m. found by Kelmė district officials.
According to the Telšiai County Police, officers from the Aras Counter-Terrorism Operations Team took the grenades.
The owner of the house was arrested and taken into custody.
A pre-trial investigation has been launched into the illegal disposal of weapons.
Telšiai County Police Representative Greta Frajerytė told BNS that the man indicated he was a collector and had found a weapon, grenades and ammunition as a metal detector.
“All those guns were really rusty, they were from the First or Second World War,” said G. Frajerytė.
The man introduced himself to the officers as a collector and found all these war items as a metal detector.
Officials from the Kelmė District Police Station of the Telšiai County Police Station detained a person who had accumulated a large quantity of illegal weapons and explosives with evidence, according to an additional report released Friday at noon.
2020 8 October Kelm District Police Commissariat officials received information that in a village in Radviliškis district, a man born in 1954 illegally disposed of firearms and explosives. Officials took immediate action: clarification of the information received led investigators from the Kelmė District Police Station to the farm in Pašušvis village, Radviliškis district.
On the same day, while continuing to search the property, a 66-year-old man was found and confiscated several rusted weapons during World War II, including a Mosin Nagant carbine with a bullet and dagger on the weapon, two gun barrels and a cloth belt containing 152 ammunition, a firearm similar to a machine gun, a sword and two explosive-free hand grenades were found, which were removed by Lithuanian Aro policemen.
The man, suspected of illegal possession of weapons, told and explained to the officials that the weapons with ammunition were in his possession for no purpose or for distribution, he himself was a collector and found all these war articles using a metal detector .
A pre-trial investigation has been launched against a resident of the Radviliškis district.
A person who has illegally disposed of firearms, ammunition, explosives or explosive substances without a permit is prosecuted in accordance with article 253 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania. 2 d. Any person who has manufactured, acquired, possessed, carried, carried or sold at least three firearms, high explosives or large quantities of ammunition, explosives or explosives without permission will be punished with imprisonment of four to eight years.
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