A NARRE Warren teen has pleaded guilty to weapons charges over the foiled Anzac Day terror plot.
Mehran Azami, 19, appeared in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court this morning (Monday) and pleaded guilty to 19 counts of importing weapons and three other charges.
He was remanded in custody to appear at the County Court on 22 October.
The News reported in May that police charged Azami with importing more than 200 weapons – including AK-47 flick knives and tasers designed to look like iPhones – following pre-dawn raids throughout Casey on 18 April.
Following a tip-off from British police, a 200-strong joint state and federal police counter-terrorism team executed seven search warrants in Narre Warren, Hampton Park, Hallam and Eumemmerring as part of Operation Rising.
Police alleged Azami was the weapons supplier for two other Casey teenagers charged following the raids – 18-year-olds Harun Causevic and Sevdet Ramadan Besim.
Causevic, of Hampton Park, was refused bail at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 8 May and detained along with Besim, of Hallam. They are due to return to court in August.
Last week the News reported that a 15-year-old boy from Britain had pleaded guilty to one count of inciting another person to carry out an attack at a service in Australia.
Authorities dropped a second charge of inciting terrorism overseas in relation to beheading a person in Australia.
Police arrested the boy in April after intercepting encrypted conversation allegedly with an 18-year-old man in Australia.
The boy, from Blackburn in north-west England, will be sentenced in September and cannot be named for legal reasons.
Two other Narre Warren men, aged 18 and 19, were released without charge following the raids.
Last month a 16-year-old girl from northern England was charged after she was implicated in the alleged terror plot.
The girl from Manchester has been charged with collecting or making a record of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing for an act of terrorism, or possessing a document or record containing information of that kind.
The UK teen’s trial is scheduled to begin on 17 August, in Manchester.
