Police arrested the man from a bush allotment in Tatakamotonga at around 2.00pm Thursday.
He has been charged with housebreaking and theft and was remanded in Police custody to appear at the Nuku’alofa Magistrate Court, Police said.
As Kaniva News reported, a CCT video which captured the incident was released to Police and social media after more than TP$10,000 went missing from the Fatafehi road office.
A search of the place where the suspect was arrested from found clothes which match those worn by the person who appeared in the security footage.
