{"id":685131,"date":"2026-05-21T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685131\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:12:08","slug":"15-year-old-girl-charged-with-arson-after-u-s-minor-league-baseball-teams-bus-is-torched-in-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685131\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old girl charged with arson after U.S. minor league baseball team\u2019s bus is torched in Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A charred charter bus being used by minor league baseball team Kane County Cougars in an undated photo. The bus was set on fire while the team was playing a series against the Winnipeg Goldeyes.Curtis Haug\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

A minor league baseball team\u2019s charter bus was torched during a series against the Winnipeg Goldeyes. <\/p>\n

Police say the bus for the Kane County Cougars of Illinois was parked at Blue Cross Stadium in Winnipeg when it was set on fire early in the morning.<\/p>\n

They say a bystander saw someone on the bus and helped to get them off.<\/p>\n

No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

Crews extinguished the fire, but police said the bus and its contents were destroyed.<\/p>\n

Two teens were arrested, and a 15-year-old girl is facing arson charges.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for U.S.-based Windstar Lines estimates its lost motorcoach has cost the company $425,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very disappointed that this could happen to our family-owned company, and the loss of this vehicle will impact our business and operations,\u201d vice-president Pat Greteman said in an e-mail Thursday. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are happy that no one was hurt in this reckless act of vandalism and are co-operating with local authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cougars are in Winnipeg for a three-game series that started Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Curtis Haug, the team\u2019s vice-president, said players and staff would be travelling back to the United States on another bus that the Goldeyes helped secure. <\/p>\n

The Cougars are scheduled to play in Fargo, N.D., this weekend, where Windstar said it would be sending another bus for the team.<\/p>\n

The Cougars are part of the American Association of Professional Baseball league, and the Goldeyes are its only Canadian team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: A charred charter bus being used by minor league baseball team Kane County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,22073,883,913],"class_list":["post-685131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-winnipeg","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685131","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=685131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}