{"id":723417,"date":"2026-06-08T17:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/723417\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:27:09","slug":"man-charged-with-arson-for-portage-avenue-retail-fire-c26-104358","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/723417\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with arson for Portage Avenue retail fire: C26-104358"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Winnipeg Police Service Major Crimes Unit continued to investigate an arson-related fire at a commercial business in the 200 block of Portage Avenue that was set on May 5, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>It was determined a man entered the store during business hours, around 6:55 p.m. He set some merchandise on fire, then fled. The fire quickly spread and resulted in substantial property and merchandise damage. \u00a0Onsite security extinguished the fire and nobody was injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Police Service Major Crimes Unit continued to investigate an arson-related fire at a commercial business in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-723417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723417","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=723417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}