{"id":130505,"date":"2025-09-09T05:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/130505\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T05:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:55:15","slug":"man-48-charged-with-throwing-rocks-at-moving-cars-in-niagara-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/130505\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 48, charged with throwing rocks at moving cars in Niagara Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Niagara Region have made an arrest in connection with a series of rock-throwing incidents that \u201cdeliberately\u201d targeted moving vehicles, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the incidents were reported between <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/07\/31\/opp-warn-drivers-after-several-incidents-of-rocks-thrown-at-vehicles-on-niagara-area-highways\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June and August 2025<\/a> at the following locations:<\/p>\n<p>Highway 406 between Westchester Avenue and Fourth Avenue in St Catharines.<\/p>\n<p>QEW near Mountain Road inNiagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Highway 58 near Pine Street in Thorold.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Police believe one person is responsible for all three incidents and have identified the suspect as 48-year-old Ammar Al-Zubaidi from St. Catharines. He was arrested and charged with nine counts of mischief and endangering life.<\/p>\n<p>He remains in custody and is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the investigation is being conducted by the Niagara OPP, with the assistance of the OPP Highway Safety Division Crime Unit, in coordination with Niagara Regional Police.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information or relevant surveillance footage is encouraged to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Niagara Region have made an arrest in connection with a series of rock-throwing incidents that \u201cdeliberately\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-130505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}