{"id":879305,"date":"2026-09-01T09:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/879305\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T09:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:44:26","slug":"etobicoke-arson-toronto-police-searching-for-2-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/879305\/","title":{"rendered":"Etobicoke arson: Toronto police searching for 2 suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two arson suspects were caught on camera smashing the front of a building before pouring liquid from a jerry can. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police are working to identify two suspects wanted in connection with an alleged arson in Etobicoke earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During the early morning hours of Aug. 3, emergency crews responded to reports of a fire at a clothing store in the Mimico-Queensway neighbourhood, near Lake Shore Boulevard West and Albert Avenue, east of Royal York Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The video appears to show one suspect smashing the store\u2019s windows, while the other suspect then appears to pour an accelerant inside the store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the suspect then lit the accelerant, causing the store to go up in flames. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The pair then fled the area in what investigators describe as a silver\/grey metallic Honda Civic sedan, believed to be a 2022\u20132026 model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The first suspect is described as having a medium build and last seen wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt with the hood down, a dark balaclava, dark pants, and dark athletic-style shoes with light-coloured soles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The second is a male with a medium build, who wore a dark hooded jacket with the hood up, a black surgical-style face mask, a white undershirt, dark pants, and dark footwear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This arson investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information is asked to contact Toronto police or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two arson suspects were caught on camera smashing the front of a building before pouring liquid from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-879305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879305","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=879305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}