{"id":4652,"date":"2023-05-19T04:58:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T16:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2023-05-19T04:58:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T16:58:48","slug":"loafers-lodge-fire-man-arrested-and-charged-with-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4652","title":{"rendered":"Loafers Lodge fire: Man arrested and charged with arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested and charged in relation to the fatal fire at Loafers Lodge in Wellington&#8217;s Newtown on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll from the blaze was six, but it may be days before a final death toll was known. Two bodies were recovered from the scene on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday night, police said a man had been arrested earlier in the afternoon and charged with two counts of arson.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the fire was ongoing and police said they could not ruled out further, more serious charges in relation to the deaths at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Wellington district commander inspector Dion Bennett said police were not seeking anyone else in relation to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The arrested man is set to appear in Wellington District Court on 19 May, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested and charged in relation to the fatal fire at Loafers Lodge in Wellington&#8217;s Newtown on Monday night. The death toll from the blaze was six, but it may be days before a final death toll was known. Two bodies were recovered from the scene on Thursday. In a statement on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4654,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions\/4654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}