{"id":377632,"date":"2025-12-30T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377632\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:59:07","slug":"alleged-jacket-burning-man-arrested-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377632\/","title":{"rendered":"alleged jacket-burning man arrested by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A suspect has been arrested following an arson investigation into jacket burnings in Scarborough, police said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police previously said a suspect approached someone waiting on a subway platform around 6:30 a.m. Sunday morning and attempted to set their jacket on fire. The victim was uninjured. The male suspect fled the scene, but police released images of him the same day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At around the same time the following morning, police said, a suspect picked up a jacket that had been left on a chair at Scarborough Town Centre, lit it on fire and walked away. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The same suspect was later spotted outside one of the entrances to the mall, trying to light another person\u2019s clothing on fire, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said Tuesday that 47-year-old Donald McFarlane has been charged with nine offences in connection with the incidents, including assault with a weapon, arson and four counts for failing to comply with probation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect has been arrested following an arson investigation into jacket burnings in Scarborough, police said Tuesday. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-377632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}