{"id":819608,"date":"2026-07-22T23:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819608\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:18:19","slug":"rnc-arrests-man-in-connection-with-fires-at-two-communication-tower-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819608\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Arrests Man in Connection With Fires at Two Communication Tower Sites"},"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\/07\/cell-phone-tower-1.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"RNC Arrests Man in Connection With Fires at Two Communication Tower Sites\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>A 30-year-old man has been arrested and will be charged with deliberately setting fires at two radio and communications towers in the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>The RNC has responded to six suspicious fires at tower sites across the metro region since the weekend, with the most recent blaze breaking out Tuesday in Pippy Park.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who is now facing two counts of arson and two counts of mischief causing property damage, is in custody for a court appearance tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>RNC says the investigation into the remaining four fires is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the RNC or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) A 30-year-old man has been arrested and will be charged with deliberately setting fires at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819609,"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-819608","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\/819608","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=819608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}