{"id":326684,"date":"2026-05-21T20:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326684\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:35:35","slug":"overnight-arson-in-milwaukee-3-vehicles-set-on-fire-suspect-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326684\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight arson in Milwaukee; 3 vehicles set on fire, suspect sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gjni5iea3clir64l.jpg\" alt=\"Multiple vehicle fires on Milwaukee's east side\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">MILWAUKEE &#8211; An arson investigation is underway after multiple vehicles were set on fire in Milwaukee early Thursday morning, May 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Cars set on fire <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WITI\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the Milwaukee Police Department, a suspect set three vehicles on fire around 1 a.m. in the area of Belleview and Oakland on Milwaukee&#8217;s east side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/foxlocal.onelink.me\/6abq\/ijh6elyt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FREE DOWNLOAD: Get breaking news alerts in the FOX LOCAL Mobile app for iOS or Android<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vehicle-fires.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Vehicles set on fire near Belleview and Oakland in Milwaukee (Courtesy: Sally K.)\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>  MPD tips <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WITI\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police continue to seek an unknown suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Anyone with any information is asked to contact Milwaukee police at 414-935-7360 or to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 414-224-Tips or P3 Tips.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/milwaukee-vehicle-fires2.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Vehicles set on fire near Belleview and Oakland in Milwaukee <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/milwaukee-arson.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Vehicles set on fire near Belleview and Oakland in Milwaukee <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FOX6 News is working to gather information about this incident. When we have more information, we will update this post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this post was provided by the Milwaukee Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/tag\/us\/wi\/milwaukee-county\/milwaukee\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE &#8211; An arson investigation is underway after multiple vehicles were set on fire in Milwaukee early Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2042,3833,65808,100,143,145,144,1181,24140],"class_list":["post-326684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-county","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us","tag-wi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}