{"id":222088,"date":"2025-05-18T16:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=222088"},"modified":"2025-05-18T16:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T20:32:07","slug":"man-arrested-after-attempting-to-set-fire-inside-georgia-target-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=222088","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested After Attempting to Set Fire Inside Georgia Target Store"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man was taken into custody Tuesday morning after allegedly attempting to start a fire inside the Target store on Loganville Highway in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barrow County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies responded to the store at 11:41 a.m. following a call from Target staff. All customers and employees were safely evacuated from the building, and no injuries were reported during the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What We Don&#8217;t Know<\/strong>: Authorities have not released the suspect&#8217;s name, the specific method used in the attempted arson, or what charges he may face. The sheriff&#8217;s office has not disclosed a possible motive for the attempted fire or whether the man had any prior connection to the store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Take Action: <\/strong>Shoppers who witnessed the incident or have information that might assist investigators can contact the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/county\/Barrow\"   title=\"Barrow\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1507\">Barrow<\/a> County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at (470) 971-7557. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=32]\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was taken into custody Tuesday morning after allegedly attempting to start a fire inside the Target store on Loganville Highway in Bethlehem. Barrow County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies responded to the store at 11:41 a.m. following a call from Target staff. All customers and employees were safely evacuated from the building, and no injuries were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":222089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10034,17961],"class_list":["post-222088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-arson","tag-target","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}