{"id":592405,"date":"2026-04-09T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592405\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:54:37","slug":"police-blocking-burrard-street-in-downtown-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592405\/","title":{"rendered":"Police blocking Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avoid the area on Burrard Street between Pender Street and Hastings Street in downtown Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) says it is blocking the streets in both directions to investigate a suspicious package located in the vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of abundance of caution, police have cordoned off the area while they deal with it,\u201d Const. Darren Wong told CityNews.<\/p>\n<p>Delays have been reported in both directions on Pender Street.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/vlcsnap-2026-04-08-15h44m59s186-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Police blocking Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver due to 'suspicious package' (CityNews Image)\" class=\"wp-image-4416339\"  \/>(CityNews Image)<\/p>\n<p>Officers are on scene and navigating traffic away from the area.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2:30 p.m., the VPD says it has cleared the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspicious package was deemed not suspicious after investigation. Nothing criminal at this time,\u201d Wong added.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/vlcsnap-2026-04-08-15h44m47s483-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Police blocking Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver due to 'suspicious package' (CityNews Image)\" class=\"wp-image-4416340\"  \/>(CityNews Image)<\/p>\n<p>This is a developed story. More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avoid the area on Burrard Street between Pender Street and Hastings Street in downtown Vancouver. The Vancouver Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-592405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592405","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=592405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}