An 18-year-old man has been charged after allegedly orchestrating a firebomb attack on a Baldivis tobacco shop while he was in Iraq.
The accused allegedly conspired to carry out attacks on a number of illicit tobacco stores in the Perth metropolitan area in 2025.
He also allegedly received payments from tobacco store operators in exchange for protection from being targeted.
On December 1, the teen allegedly asked an associate to firebomb a store on Settlers Avenue in Baldivis.
On December 22, two people deliberately set fire to the building.
All three have since been convicted over the firebombing.
The 18-year-old was arrested and charged by police on September 16 upon his return to Australia from Iraq.
The Dianella man has been charged with three counts of threat with intent to gain benefit, two counts of conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, two counts of receiving, one count of selling a prohibited drug and one count of criminal damage by fire.
He was remanded in custody ahead of his next court appearance on November 26.
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