Armaguard arrests linked to other crimes THE armed hold-up of an Armaguard van in Sydney last week has been linked to six similar robberies and more than 200 illegally imported handguns. Robbery Squad detectives charged a 26-year-old man and a 20-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, after arresting them on Sunday evening at Marrickville and Wentworthville. Police allege the two were among three masked men armed with a handgun and two military assault rifles who held up the cash-in-transit van about 8.15am (AEDT) on March 4 outside Sydney's Broadway shopping centre. A fourth man was behind the wheel of a stolen 2008 Audi RS6 that had pulled up in front of the van, police say. The bandits confronted Armaguard employee Lemmy Tasovski moments after he got out of the van, stole his Smith and Wesson revolver and fired one shot into the air, shattering the glass awning overhead. The offenders demanded access to the van but fled empty-handed in the Audi. The 26-year-old man charged on Monday appeared in Newtown Local Court and did not apply for bail, which was formally refused. He is facing seven charges, including firing the guard's gun and possessing a Glock pistol that police recovered from his home at Marrickville. "Further investigations revealed that firearm is one of a series of firearms that were imported from Germany," Detective Superintendent Luke Moore told reporters outside the court. Twelve months ago, authorities smashed a firearm smuggling ring including an Australian Post licensee that was accused of illegally importing 220 Glock pistols from Germany. Three men were charged, but nearly all of the guns remain unaccounted for. Police on Monday also charged the alleged Armaguard robber with committing perjury in a trial at which a jury found him and three co-accused not guilty last October. They were accused of stealing more than $6 million during the armed robberies of six armoured vans between 2007 and 2009. The investigation into last week's robbery attempt at Broadway uncovered alleged conversations suggesting the man had fabricated evidence he gave at the trial. Police would not confirm that telephone surveillance was used to get the information but said the new information could spark a retrial. They also charged him on Monday with dealing with proceeds of crime amounting to $1.2 million in the first half of 2009. On Tuesday, the accused faces a separate trial charged with threatening a co-accused in the October trial who gave evidence against him. "He was a rollover witness in that trial," a senior police source told AAP. The accused man also faces three shooting charges in an unrelated matter. Court documents from Monday show he was on parole and on bail. The 20-year-old man charged on Monday faced Fairfield Local Court on four charges relating to last week's Armaguard robbery. Magistrate Vivien Swain refused his bail application and listed the matter for May 7 in Central Local Court. He, too, has been charged previously in other matters and faces three separate actions in the local courts. Police continue to search for the other two men involved in last week's armed hold-up.