{"id":725548,"date":"2026-06-09T16:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725548\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:54:15","slug":"winnipeg-man-charged-after-allegedly-starting-fire-at-portage-avenue-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725548\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg man charged after allegedly starting fire at Portage Avenue store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 33-year-old man has been charged with arson after allegedly setting merchandise on fire at a downtown store.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg police say a man entered the store in the 200 block of Portage Avenue at around 6:55 p.m. on May 5. He set some merchandise on fire before fleeing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire quickly spread, causing significant damage to the property and merchandise<\/p>\n<p>Security at the store quickly extinguished the fire, and no injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators identified the suspect, and a warrant for arrest was issued.<\/p>\n<p>On June 4, the suspect was arrested at the Winnipeg Remand Centre on the\u00a0strength of the warrant. He was already in custody on an unrelated matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is now facing new charges, including arson, causing damage to property and\u00a0failure to comply with probation x 2.<\/p>\n<p>He remains in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 33-year-old man has been charged with arson after allegedly setting merchandise on fire at a downtown store.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-725548","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\/725548","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=725548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}