The owner of a $1.1 million Canberra home will fight allegations that he used it as a cannabis grow house and spent more than 18 months cultivating the drug.
Edmund Scott Krizaic, 40, handed himself in at the City Police Station on Friday morning.
The Higgins man did so after police appealed on Wednesday for him to come forward, following the alleged discovery and seizure of 31 cannabis plants and a single-barrel shotgun at his home.
Police have said that officers executing a search warrant uncovered "a sophisticated hydroponic cannabis growing operation spread across multiple rooms" at the house.
ACT Policing has been granted a restraining order over the property, which effectively means the asset has been frozen.
The estimated street value of the cannabis allegedly found inside the house has not been disclosed.
Mr Krizaic appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court on Friday afternoon, and was granted bail without opposition from prosecutors.
The 40-year-old was formally charged with cultivating a trafficable quantity of cannabis between December 23, 2018 and July 11 this year.
He also faces charges of interfering with an electricity supply in circumstances that could endanger life, and possessing an unregistered firearm.
No further details of the alleged offences were given.
Mr Krizaic's lawyer, James Maher, told the court he had been instructed to enter pleas of not guilty to all three charges.
The many conditions of Mr Krizaic's bail include that he must provide security in the sum of $1000, and surrender all passports and firearms.
He is due to appear in court again in September.
