A complete of 16 fires have been related to the 29-year-old boy, together with an incident the place three fires at an house in West Melbourne triggered roughly $15,000 in injury.

Senior Detective Officer Bubb mentioned the primary incident was on November 27, and the newest one was yesterday.

Police declare there have been 4 incidents yesterday, together with a person pouring alcoholic drinks right into a bag of aerosol cans at round 6:30pm on the entrance to a enterprise in Melbourne’s Mercantile Place.

McArdle is described as 180 cm tall, of medium construct, with brown hair and an Irish accent.

He has quite a lot of tattoos on his left arm, together with one that claims “solely the fittest survive”.

Senior Detective Officer Bubb mentioned he’s recognized to frequent the Melbourne CBD and St Kilda space.

Senior Detective Officer Bubb mentioned police have been involved in regards to the elevated conduct.

“It is positively extra cheeky and offensive, very reckless and harmful,” he mentioned.

CCTV and a picture of McArdle have been launched at this time by police in hopes that somebody would acknowledge him and supply info on his whereabouts.