{"id":59852,"date":"2025-08-10T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T20:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/59852\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T20:01:14","slug":"police-seek-assistance-identifying-persons-of-interest-in-playground-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/59852\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek assistance identifying persons of interest in playground arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, July 12, 2025 at approximately 8 a.m., EPS and Edmonton Fire Rescue Services (EFRS) responded to a fire in the area of 122 Avenue and 128 Street, at a playground adjacent to St. Pius X Catholic Elementary School. The fire has since been determined to be arson. The playground was severely damaged and will remain closed until further notice. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators are releasing the following images and surveillance video of two males and three females who are persons of interest in this investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"height: 282px; width: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AR25R005-2 male POI.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Person of interest in relation to playground arson<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"height: 282px; width: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AR25R005-2 female POIs.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Persons of interest in relation to playground arson<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Surveillance videos of persons of interest<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who can identify any of these people is asked to contact the EPS at 780-423-4567 or #377 from a mobile phone. Anonymous information can also be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/250\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.p3tips.com\/250<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, July 12, 2025 at approximately 8 a.m., EPS and Edmonton Fire Rescue Services (EFRS) responded to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-59852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59852","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=59852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}