LILYDALE, VIC. — Yarra Ranges Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following a series of fires in Lilydale last month.
Police and emergency services were called to ten separate bins, rubbish skips and spot fires across Lilydale between 8.45pm and 11.30pm on June 19.
The estimated damage totalled more than $200,000.
Incidents include:
- A chair was damaged in the Marketplace shopping precinct;
- A bin fire on Main Street;
- Three bin fires on Clarke Street;
- A bin fire on Hutchinson Street;
- Three industrial skip bins and a bin were set alight in Beresford Road and
- A skip bin at a medical centre in Berwick Street.
Fortunately, no one was injured during the incidents; however, significant damage was caused to the medical centre.
On Wednesday, July 1, police arrested a 21-year-old man in Lilydale.
He has been charged with
- Ten counts of criminal damage by fire;
- Reckless conduct endangering life;
- Possess a drug of dependence and
- Resisting police
The man, of no fixed address, has been remanded to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court later today.
Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000
