{"id":822648,"date":"2026-07-24T08:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822648\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:08:20","slug":"rnc-links-accused-to-eleven-suspicious-fires-across-metro-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822648\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Links Accused to Eleven Suspicious Fires Across Metro Region"},"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\/duckworth-fire.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"RNC Links Accused to Eleven Suspicious Fires Across Metro Region\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary has confirmed that a man charged in connection with two fires in the metro region involving communications equipment is now a suspect in nine others.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, 30-year-old Patrick Donald Greer made his first appearance in a St. John\u2019s courtroom to answer to two charges of arson, and two counts of mischief by damaging property. <\/p>\n<p>Those charges are in relation to a fire at a communication tower in Pippy Park, and a radio tower on Densmore\u2019s Lane on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the RNC have confirmed that Greer is a suspect in nine other fires that occurred around the metro region, including one that damaged three cell towers on top of the Bell Aliant building on Duckworth Street last week.<\/p>\n<p>Greer\u2019s next court date has been set for next Wednesday at 3 p.m. for a status update. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another matter involving Greer is making its way through the courts in Stephenville. There, the man is facing a charge of possession of property obtained by crime. His next court date on that charge is September 3rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary has confirmed that a man charged in connection with two fires&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822649,"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-822648","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\/822648","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=822648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}