Australia’s former most wanted man has been arrested by police after he allegedly removed his ankle monitor.
Earlier, West Australian Police said Brett Ronald Maston had last been seen in Mount Lawley in Western Australia about 5.50am today (7.30am AEST).
Police urgently scoured the region for the 57-year-old and said this evening Maston had been arrested, but did not provide any further detail.
Maston is a convicted armed bank robber who has served a decade behind bars.
He has previously escaped from prison on two occasions.
He has been dubbed a “career criminal” and has tattooed the phrase “Australia’s most wanted” across his back.
The former fly-in fly-out miner then started a new life in the Philippines before he was deported over an immigration matter and returned to Western Australia in 2012.
Just last year, he claimed his life of crime was behind him.
“My life is destroyed and I know, through my actions, I’ve destroyed other people’s lives,” he told 9News in a sit-down interview last year.
“It’s something that I regret sincerely.”
