Arson charges, Caboolture

Police have charged a man following a fire that occurred at a unit in Caboolture this afternoon.

Officers were called to a unit on Pumicestone Road at 4.20pm after a man allegedly set fire to a number of items inside the unit.

The fire was contained to the one unit and the inside suffered significant damage.

No one was injured as a result of the fire.

Police located a man at the scene and as officers tried to arrest him, he allegedly resisted violently causing a minor injury to a police officer.

A 30-year-old Dakabin man has been charged with one count of arson and two counts of assault police.

He is due to appear in the Hervey Bay Magistrates Court via phone tomorrow.

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