Arson arrests ‘coincidence’
PA | | Auckland Sheer coincidence led to the (Auckland arrest of two men accused of setting fire to | a Masterton policeman’s home.
The ' Masterton police said a detective was making inquiries |at a Masterton bank; on Thursday when the [Panmure A.S.B. Bank called !to query an account of someone at the branch. | ; The I Auckland police were aler ed and the two Masteijton [ men were taken i to j Newmarket policel station and remanded for questioning. Lee Anthony Harris, aged | 35; land Charles Anthony Schults, aged 28, both -unemployed, came before Judge! Kerr in the District Court at Auckland yesterdayj. |
Neither man entered a plea to a charge of wilfully setting fire to a (house at 15 Casel Street, Masterton, on March 4, with each other and Ashley Stephen Waitere. Judge Kerr remanded Schults to the District Court at Masterton on Monday and Harris to the same court on Friday. Both men are in custody. “Locating the men was sheer coincidence ... we just had a lucky break in locating them,” said Detective Inspector Martin Sears, of Masterton. Tie said reports that checks on the bank’s computer revealing that one of the men was wanted by the police, were incorrect.
“It was a series of coincidences that had the police locating them.
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