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POLICE have charged a 45-year-old man with deliberately settling fire to grass an vacant property at Westfield early Thursday morning.
Armadale Police and a Fire and Emergency Service crew were called to the fire on Westfield Rd around 12.30am and fire fighters quickly brought the flames under control.
The grassed area and a fence were burnt.
A witness gave police a description of a man seen in the vicinity at the time of the fire and officers searched the area and detained a man fitting the description of the alleged offender
walking on Ypres Rd.
Police later charged a 45-year-old Gosnells man with criminal damage by fire and he will appear in the Armadale Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
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