The arson happened in King Street between 3.30am and 3.45am on Sunday, February 26.

It is one of the 360 crimes that happened in the Mount Isa division during February. 96 of these crimes are good order offences. 

But crimes that do stand out include four cases of fraud, of which one of them was solved, and 28 reports of unlawful entries. Of these 28 offences only 11 have been solved. 

 There was also a robbery, which happened along the Barkly Highway north of Mount Isa on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 7. The crime has been solved. 

There were 57 different cases of ‘other thefts’, which do not include unlawful entries, and 23 cases had been solved. The two charges of handling stolen goods had been solved. 

There were 52 cases of property damage. 30 of these matters had been solved. 23 drug crimes had happened in Mount Isa in February.  Only two were unsolved.

Assault charges during February was numbered at 51. Of these, 34 of these assaults had so far been solved by police. 

In the far larger Mount Isa Police District, which ranges from the Gulf communities to Birdsville, there were 564 crimes in February. 147 of these were good order offences. 

There were 79 cases of property damage, and 48 of these had been solved. There were 78 assaults of which 54 had been solved. 

There were 51 drug offences. Only five of these crimes were unsolved. 

Unlawful entries were counted at 46, and police had solved 24 of these crimes. 

There were 80 cases of property damage, and 49 of these had been solved. 

In the Cloncurry division, which is part of the larger Mount Isa district, there had been 51 crimes in February. The most common crime type was drug related, which totaled 11. There had been one case of fraud.