2 teens were arrested on Thursday by the Cape Coral Police Department for arson at the Pelican Baseball Complex.<\/p>\n
A park ranger contacted authorities on Wednesday after finding extensive damage in the park’s bathrooms, including broken sinks and burnt items in toilets.<\/p>\n
Security footage showed two individuals entering the bathrooms around 2:05 a.m., with smoke seen shortly after. Detectives worked with the State Fire Marshal to identify the suspects but had not yet located them.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the suspects returned, allegedly setting fire to garbage cans, a wooden table, and an American flag. They are also accused of targeting Cape Christian Church, igniting a T-shirt and a sign.<\/p>\n
Police arrested the two juvinilles at Cape Christian. One suspect was allegedly found with 54 grams of marijuana, and CCPD said the other had alcohol and a THC vape.<\/p>\n
One suspect faces charges including first-degree arson, criminal mischief, desecration of a flag, and possession of a controlled substance. The other faces similar charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 teens were arrested on Thursday by the Cape Coral Police Department for arson at the Pelican Baseball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":["post-80028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}