{"id":683,"date":"2019-07-04T18:06:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T18:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=683"},"modified":"2019-07-04T18:06:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T18:06:15","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-connection-with-neighborhood-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/07\/04\/suspect-arrested-in-connection-with-neighborhood-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Arrested in Connection with Neighborhood Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lakeland Police Detectives have arrested Bradley Thomas\nNicholson in connection with recent fires set across the South Lakeland area.\nNicholson was questioned and later arrested on Tuesday, July 2, 2019. The\nseventeen-year-old was charged with one count of felony Second Degree Arson.\nThe charge is specifically tied to one of the incidents where Nicholson\nadmitted to setting fire to five lawn chairs that were inside the rear bed\narea of a pick-up truck. While in custody, Nicholson also admitted to having a\nrole in incidents at Dobbins Park where two additional fires occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 12, 2019, Lakeland Police Detectives began\ninvestigating a series of incidents involving seven trash\/recycling containers\nthat were set on fire in the Dixieland and South Lake Morton neighborhoods. On\nJune 28, 2019, the Lakeland Police Department was once again called to multiple\nsouth Lakeland locations where trash\/recycling containers and a construction\ndumpster were set on fire. Also, during the same timeframe, five lawn chairs\nwere set ablaze inside the rear bed area of a pick-up truck that was parked in\na residential driveway. On June 29, 2019, Lakeland Police Officers responded to\nDobbins Park, 514 Ariana Street, in reference to a playground slide that was\nset on fire. A short time later, it was also discovered that a trash can inside\nthe restroom facility at the park had been set on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detectives are continuing to work with state fire\ninvestigators to review all evidence as the investigations continue. Additional\ncharges related to these incidents may be forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lakeland Police Detectives have arrested Bradley Thomas Nicholson in connection with recent fires set across the South Lakeland area. Nicholson was questioned and later arrested on Tuesday, July 2, 2019.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}