{"id":503449,"date":"2026-02-27T17:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503449\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:05:07","slug":"two-teens-arrested-for-attempted-arson-at-oshawa-business-durham-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503449\/","title":{"rendered":"Two teens arrested for attempted arson at Oshawa business: Durham police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Two 16-year-old boys are facing several charges related to an attempted arson at an Oshawa business, said Durham police. <\/p>\n<p>Officers responded the afternoon of Feb. 19 to calls of an armed person at a business near Simcoe Street S. and Bruce Street, according to a Durham police news release. <\/p>\n<p>Police said two male suspects broke the front door glass and &#8220;attempted to ignite an incendiary device.&#8221; Both suspects were found and arrested the same day, said police. <\/p>\n<p>A 16-year-old boy from Scugog is facing 15 charges, including arson, possession of incendiary material and three counts of failure to comply with a release order. <\/p>\n<p>Another 16-year-old boy from Toronto is facing 10 charges, including arson, disguise with intent and four counts of failure to comply with a sentence order.<\/p>\n<p>Both teens were wanted on outstanding warrants by other police services at the time of arrest, said Durham police. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to contact investigators or Crime Stoppers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-503449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503449","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=503449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}