{"id":792296,"date":"2026-07-10T07:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792296\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:10:38","slug":"chainsaw-wielding-man-in-west-end-arrested-and-charged-vpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792296\/","title":{"rendered":"Chainsaw-wielding man in West End arrested and charged: VPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) reported that a 67-year-old-man has been arrested and charged after wielding a chainsaw at people in the West End.<\/p>\n<p>Around 7 p.m. Wednesday evening, a man was heard yelling obscenities near Davie Street and Denman Street.<\/p>\n<p>The man was near a coffee shop when he allegedly turned on the electric chainsaw he had been wielding and started to walk towards people, police say.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured in the incident, according to the VPD.<\/p>\n<p>Bystanders called 911 and the man was arrested within three minutes of receiving the call, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The man was found at Beach Avenue and Burnaby Street.<\/p>\n<p>He has been charged with one count of possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=vancouver.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778189171_473_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) reported that a 67-year-old-man has been arrested and charged after wielding a chainsaw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-792296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792296","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=792296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}