{"id":782215,"date":"2026-07-05T17:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782215\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:41:11","slug":"man-charged-in-connection-with-cochrane-pond-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782215\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged in Connection With Cochrane Pond Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rnc-lights.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Man Charged in Connection With Cochrane Pond Fire\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(RNC)<\/p>\n<p>Extra police patrols in the Cochrane Pond Park area this weekend after several fires have paid off. The RNC arrested a man this morning after spotting a man intentionally setting fire to a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Police brought in a drone just after daybreak, and located a suspect at about 8:00.<\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old has been charged with only the one fire Sunday morning, but RNC are continuing to investigate several others in the park.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was held for court today.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Tony Wakeham is addressing the situation on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Daase7bNvXq\/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a> saying \u201cOur government will not be tolerant of any activity that puts our communities at risk. Appropriate resources will continue to be engaged to support preventative, investigative and enforcement action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He urges anyone who notices suspicious activity to contact police immediately. He also reminds the public that heavy fines may be attached to violating wildfire regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (RNC) Extra police patrols in the Cochrane Pond Park area this weekend after several fires have paid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-782215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782215","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=782215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}