{"id":94978,"date":"2026-05-29T20:28:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/94978\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:28:46","slug":"new-berlin-playground-arson-merry-go-round-destroyed-man-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/94978\/","title":{"rendered":"New Berlin playground arson, merry-go-round destroyed; man arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/new-berlin-arson.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEW BERLIN, Wis. &#8211; A 19-year-old man was arrested following an arson investigation at Biwer Park in New Berlin on Friday, May 29.<\/p>\n<p>   Arson investigation <\/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 New Berlin Police Department, officers responded to Biwer Park around 4:40 a.m. after neighbors reported a fire on the grounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to witnesses, a man with a gas can was also spotted in the park.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/burned_merry_go_round_on_playground-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">New Berlin merry-go-round destroyed by fire <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Arriving officers found the park&#8217;s merry-go-round on fire. The New Berlin Fire Department extinguished the fire, though the merry-go-round was destroyed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">In addition to the ruined merry-go-round, the basketball court also sustained minor damage.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bnf_news_background_gray-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">New Berlin basketball court damaged <\/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 data-v-94395e58=\"\">Shortly following the incident, officers located and arrested the suspect, a 19-year-old New Berlin man.\u00a0Officers confirmed the suspect started the fire with a series of Molotov cocktails.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No one was injured.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this post was provided by the New Berlin 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\/us\/wi\/waukesha-county\/new-berlin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Berlin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW BERLIN, Wis. &#8211; A 19-year-old man was arrested following an arson investigation at Biwer Park in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,17795,190,2038,38,652,17798,17797],"class_list":["post-94978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-germany","tag-new-berlin","tag-news","tag-us","tag-waukesha-county","tag-wi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116659755998160497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}