Peel Regional Police (PRP) have arrested one suspect and are searching for another after an unoccupied Mississauga business was targeted in three separate arson attempts.<\/p>\n
Investigators say the first fire was reported on March 16, just before 5:30 a.m., at a commercial property near Winston Churchill Boulevard and Argentia Road. The business was empty at the time, and no injuries were reported. The suspects fled before officers arrived.<\/p>\n
Since that initial fire, police say the same location has been hit twice more, each time by individuals attempting to set the property on fire.<\/p>\n
Following weeks of investigation, officers arrested Kevin Paredes, a 19\u2011year\u2011old man from Ottawa, on April 17. He is charged with arson, break and enter, possession of break-in instruments, disguise with intent and possession of property obtained by crime.<\/p>\n
Investigators are now working to identify a second suspect described as a male in his late teens to early 20s, with a fair complexion, a slim build, clean\u2011shaven, and dark eyes. He was last seen wearing a black toque, a black puffer jacket, black jeans, and black Nike Air Force shoes.<\/p>\n
Police have not commented on a possible motive or whether the business was specifically targeted.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information, including surveillance footage from the area, is urged to contact Peel Regional Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peel Regional Police (PRP) have arrested one suspect and are searching for another after an unoccupied Mississauga business…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":{"0":"post-620097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mississauga","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mississauga"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620097","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=620097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}