{"id":94994,"date":"2026-05-29T20:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/94994\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:49:14","slug":"man-arrested-for-setting-playground-on-fire-in-new-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/94994\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for setting playground on fire in New Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MILWAUKEE \u2014 A 19-year-old is under arrest after allegedly setting fire to a playground in New Berlin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newberlinwi.gov\/102\/Police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police<\/a> responded to calls from neighbors around 4:40 a.m. on May 29 to reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newberlinwi.gov\/Facilities\/Facility\/Details\/Biwer-Park-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Biwer Park<\/a> was on fire. Witnesses told officers that they saw a man in the park with a gas can. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers found the merry-go-round on fire when they arrived, which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newberlinwi.gov\/1241\/Fire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Berlin Fire Department<\/a> was able to put the fire out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police later found and arrested a 19-year-old man from New Berlin, and confirmed that he \u201cstarted the fire with a series of Molotov cocktails\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No one was injured, but the merry-go-round was destroyed and there was minor damage to the basketball court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers believe the man acted alone, and there is no danger to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 A 19-year-old is under arrest after allegedly setting fire to a playground in New Berlin. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[5168,49440,112,49434,190,49437,49435,2038,17806,49525],"class_list":["post-94994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-arson","tag-basketball-court","tag-berlin","tag-biwer-park","tag-germany","tag-merry-go-round","tag-molotov-cocktails","tag-new-berlin","tag-new-berlin-police-department","tag-playground-fire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116659838523313650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94994","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=94994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}