A SOCIAL basketball player enraged by a referee’s umpiring planned to confront the official with a handgun before being talked out of it by friends, police claim.
The 38-year-old man was behind bars last night after detectives allegedly found an unlicensed 9mm automatic pistol in his car during a search yesterday.
The drama involving the referee allegedly unfolded at Melville Recreation Centre about 7pm on Monday after the man argued with the referee and stormed out to the carpark.
It is then, police claim, that he got the gun and was walking back to the centre when he was stopped by friends near the entran
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