{"id":743395,"date":"2026-06-17T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743395\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:55:08","slug":"surrey-memorial-hospital-torch-lighter-incident-leads-to-assault-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743395\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey Memorial Hospital torch lighter incident leads to assault charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Surrey Memorial Hospital torch lighter incident leads to assault charge<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 11:25 am Wednesday, June 17, 2026<\/p>\n<p>A woman has been charged with assault with a weapon in connection with allegedly using a torch lighter at Surrey Memorial Hospital in February.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey Police responded to the hospital on Feb. 26 and arrested the suspect. She was released with conditions, including a promise to appear, before formal charges were laid.<\/p>\n<p>Kyla Jeanine Jewer was charged on June 15, 2026, with possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose in addition to the assault charge. A warrant for her arrest was issued on June 15 and \u201cremains outstanding,\u201d BC Prosecution Service spokesperson Damienne Darby said.<\/p>\n<p>The Now-Leader has reached out to Fraser Health for comment.<\/p>\n<p>About the Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/author\/annaburns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anna Burns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I cover breaking news, health care, court, Vancouver Rise FC, Vancouver Goldeneyes and social issues-related topics for the Surrey Now-Leader.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theprogress.com\/2026\/06\/17\/surrey-memorial-hospital-torch-lighter-incident-leads-to-assault-charge\/mailto:anna.burns@surreynowleader.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">anna.burns@surreynowleader.com<\/a>\u00a0Follow Anna on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnaBBurns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey Memorial Hospital torch lighter incident leads to assault charge Published 11:25 am Wednesday, June 17, 2026 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-743395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743395","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=743395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}