{"id":936220,"date":"2026-10-17T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T08:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936220\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T08:38:14","slug":"man-accused-in-cell-tower-fires-to-undergo-30-day-psychiatric-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936220\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Accused in Cell Tower Fires to Undergo 30 Day Psychiatric Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The man accused in a series of fires in the metro region over the summer targeting cell phone infrastructure will undergo a 30 day psychiatric assessment. <\/p>\n

Thirty-year-old Patrick Greer appeared distressed when he attended court virtually this morning from HMP. <\/p>\n

He addressed the court crying \u201cI don\u2019t know why I did what I did, but I\u2019m sorry.\u201d <\/p>\n

Greer is accused of setting fires that caused significant damage to cell phone sites<\/a> at a number of locations<\/a> on three separate occasions in July. <\/p>\n

Greer\u2019s lawyer is arguing that his client was suffering from a mental disorder so as to be exempt from criminal responsibility at the time of the offence(s) under Section 672.11 (b) of the Criminal Code<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Greer will undergo a 30 day psychiatric assessment at the mental health and addictions centre. His next court appearance is scheduled for November 13th at 11:00 a.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (VOCM News) The man accused in a series of fires in the metro region over the summer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,269876,393,394,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-936220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","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\/936220","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=936220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}