{"id":142615,"date":"2025-09-14T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142615\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:14:08","slug":"firearm-investigation-in-gtas-east-end-four-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142615\/","title":{"rendered":"Firearm investigation in GTA\u2019s east-end: Four arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police arrested and charged four people in connection with a firearm investigation in the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64003\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64003\/\">news release<\/a>, officers stopped a vehicle near Birchmount Road and Lawrence Avenue East area during patrol for suspected impaired driving, and located two loaded firearms and a quantity of drugs, leading to the arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Eric MacNeil, 30, of Toronto, was charged with 14 offences, including a count of possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alizin Townshend-Carter, 32, of Toronto, was also charged with 14 offences, including a count of possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Christopher Gillmore, 27, of Toronto, was charged with 21 firearm- and drug-relatedoffences, including two counts of possession of Schedule II substances for the purpose of trafficking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alison Pereira-Medeiros, 22, of Caledon, was charged with 14 offences, including two counts of possessing a loaded, regulated firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact police or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police arrested and charged four people in connection with a firearm investigation in the early hours of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-142615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142615","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=142615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}