{"id":677324,"date":"2026-05-18T11:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677324\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:06:20","slug":"montreal-police-vehicle-set-on-fire-across-from-spvm-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677324\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal police vehicle set on fire across from SPVM headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Montreal police patrol car burned early Sunday, the SPVM said, in what the force believes was an arson attack.<\/p>\n<p>Several 911 calls alerted officers to the incident around 12:30 a.m., Montreal police spokesperson Johany Charland said, leading them to discover a police SUV on fire on St-Urbain St. near de Maisonneuve Blvd., in the immediate vicinity of the force\u2019s downtown headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters extinguished the flames, Charland said, adding that the police cruiser suffered considerable damage. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome incendiary material was found on the scene, so it looks like a criminal event,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Charland said those involved fled before police arrived. Officers have made no arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Police expect surveillance cameras installed at their headquarters will have captured footage of the event, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The arson unit is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Montreal police patrol car burned early Sunday, the SPVM said, in what the force believes was an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,11922,2338],"class_list":["post-677324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fires","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677324","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=677324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}