{"id":144526,"date":"2025-09-15T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/144526\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T01:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:21:09","slug":"toronto-man-assaulted-and-threatened-a-victim-personated-a-peace-officer-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/144526\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto man assaulted and threatened a victim, personated a peace officer: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police are searching for a man who allegedly assaulted and threatened a victim, and identified himself as a peace officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident happened on Aug. 7 in Scarborough, near Birchmount and Ellesmere roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say that day a person was walking in a crosswalk through an intersection when a male, who was operating a vehicle, approached. An \u201cinteraction\u201d between the two ensued during which this individual allegedly exited his vehicle, and assaulted and threatened the pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police launched an investigation into the incident two days later on Aug. 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the suspect falsely identified himself as a peace officer to the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An Investigation revealed the identity of the driver as 49-year-old Toronto resident Bobby Moyes. He is wanted for assault, impersonating a peace officer, and uttering threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The accused is described as standing six-feet tall with a heavy build and grey hair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say he drove a black Hyundai Tucson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information is asked to contact Toronto police at 416-808-4100 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are searching for a man who allegedly assaulted and threatened a victim, and identified himself as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-144526","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\/144526","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=144526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}