{"id":294395,"date":"2025-11-19T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294395\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:05:10","slug":"man-charged-with-arson-and-assaulting-police-officer-after-fire-at-wa-childcare-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294395\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with arson and assaulting police officer after fire at WA childcare centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\ufeff man has been charged with arson after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/western-australia\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Western Australian\">Western Australian<\/a> childcare centre went up in flames, resulting in $500,000 worth of damage.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege a 35-year-old man entered a childcare centre on Truarn Street in Mandurah about 6.30pm yesterday and set various items alight, resulting in a large fire.<\/p>\n<p>The fire ripped through a patio area and damaged the main building.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/8b780298-bbd1-4719-a83f-db2faae3bc6d.png\"   alt=\"Childcare centre Mandurah up in flames\"\/>Police allege the man set several items alight, resulting in a large fire. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated the alleged arson attack caused an estimated $500,000 in damages.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The alleged offender was arrested and charged with one count of criminal damage by fire and one count of burglary.<\/p>\n<p>Police also allege the man assaulted a police officer while under arrest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ed154703-92e5-4979-b479-97c5fb594400.png\"   alt=\"Alleged arson attack childcare centre Mandurah\"\/>It is estimated the fire caused $500,000 in damage. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>He was then charged with one count of assaulting an officer and two counts of obstructing officers.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The injured police officer was taken to hospital for treatment and has since been released.<\/p>\n<p>The charged man will appear\ufeff in Perth Magistrates Court today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\ufeff man has been charged with arson after a Western Australian childcare centre went up in flames, resulting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-294395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}