{"id":701799,"date":"2026-05-29T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701799\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:22:09","slug":"stolen-vehicle-set-on-fire-on-saanich-b-c-golf-course-fairway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701799\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen vehicle set on fire on Saanich, B.C. golf course fairway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Damages are being assessed at the District of Saanich, B.C.\u2019s Cedar Hill Golf Course where a stolen pickup truck pursued by police on Wednesday was abandoned on the course and set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>CHEK News reports the stolen vehicle was spotted by police in the golf course\u2019s parking lot, but then drove onto the course and set on fire on a fairway.<\/p>\n<p>As police attempted to stop the driver of the vehicle, the truck hit two police cruisers. Police didn\u2019t pursue the driver onto the course but contained the area, later making an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Golf course officials have yet to assess the extent of the damages to the golf course which has remained closed to allow cleanup.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full CHEK News story, watch a video report and view photographs, click <a href=\"https:\/\/cheknews.ca\/person-in-custody-after-setting-fire-to-stolen-vehicle-on-golf-course-saanich-police-1327199\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damages are being assessed at the District of Saanich, B.C.\u2019s Cedar Hill Golf Course where a stolen pickup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-701799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701799","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=701799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}