A man has been charged with allegedly setting fire to several cars and bins in the Raymond Terrace area earlier this month.
Police were called to a dance studio on Port Stephens Road about 9.15pm on December 12 after a report that it was well alight after a fire spread from a burning garbage bin.
The fire was extinguished and the building sustained major damage.
Two days later, a pair of bins were set alight on William Street.
Emergency crews were then called to Port Stephens Road the following day where they found two cars on fire - the blaze also damaged a nearby building.
Another vehicle was set alight in the carpark off Sturgeon Street about 1am on December 18.
The fire was extinguished, but the blaze damaged a nearby shed.
Police arrested an 18-year-old man at Waratah West on Monday and charged him with five counts of malicious damage.
