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ARSON INVESTIGATIONS
Seeking the public’s assistance

LONDON, ON (March 1, 2024) – Members of the London Police Service Street Crime Unit are seeking the public’s assistance after two arson investigations in the city last month.

At approximately 11:20 p.m. on Sunday, February 4, 2024, members of the London Police Service Uniformed Division responded to a fire at a business in the area of Gainsborough and Hyde Park roads in the northwest end of the city.

A short time later at approximately 11:45 p.m. on Sunday, February 4, 2024, members of the London Police Service Uniformed Division responded to another fire at the business’s second location in the area of Shamrock Road and Durrow Street in the south end of the city.

Both investigations have been re-assigned to the LPS Street Crime Unit.

Investigators reviewed video surveillance and learned both fires were started in a similar manner by two suspects wearing the same clothing.

The suspects are both described as wearing all black pants and coats, tan coloured boots with one carrying a grey backpack and the other carrying a black backpack. The suspect carrying the black backpack was also wearing neon-coloured gloves.

Investigators are asking any member of the public that may have been in the area of Gainsborough and Hyde Park roads and Shamrock Road and Durrow Street between 10:30 p.m. and midnight, who may have dash-cam, residential or business video surveillance that could assist with the investigation, to contact the London Police Service.

Anyone with information in relation to this incident is asked to call the London Police Service at (519) 661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Information can also be sent in online anonymously to London Middlesex Crime Stoppers.

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