{"id":215737,"date":"2026-01-04T02:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215737\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:59:17","slug":"man-arrested-at-scene-of-linwood-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215737\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested at scene of Linwood fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A 59 year old man has been arrested following a fire in Linwood.<\/p>\n<p>Three Fire and Emergency crews were called to Worcester Street just after 5AM.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46147\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_8508.jpeg.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1320\" height=\"731\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-46147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>A fence and tyres were on fire at a property.<\/p>\n<p>The man was arrested at the scene and was due to appear in court on Monday, charged with unlawfully being in a building and arson.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46148\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46148\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_8510.jpeg.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1320\" height=\"742\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-46148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Luke Vaughan said police remain at the scene, alongside Fire and Emergency NZ, while a thorough scene examination is conducted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46146\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_8512.jpeg.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1320\" height=\"725\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-46146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anyone saw anything unusual or suspicious this morning around the time of the fire, who has not yet spoken to Police, please get in touch via 105, referencing file number 260103\/3422.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46149\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_8513.jpeg.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1217\" height=\"658\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-46149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 59 year old man has been arrested following a fire in Linwood. Three Fire and Emergency crews&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[373,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-215737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-featured","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}