{"id":154292,"date":"2025-09-19T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154292\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:05:07","slug":"victoria-radio-host-charged-with-child-luring-says-bc-prosecution-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154292\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria radio host charged with child luring, says BC Prosecution Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime Victoria radio host is facing charges of child luring, according to the BC Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n<p>CFAX 1070 host Al Ferraby was arrested and is now being charged with two counts of internet luring.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Police Department\u2019s Internet Child Exploitation Unit says it initiated an investigation in September 2024, which led to the arrest of the 59-year-old in February.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a request for a statement, a Bell Media spokesperson said, \u201cWe are aware of the charges and can confirm that he has been suspended, pending a police investigation. We have no further comment at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ferraby has been with CFAX since 1994.<\/p>\n<p>He has been released from police custody.<\/p>\n<p>None of the charges have been proven in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A longtime Victoria radio host is facing charges of child luring, according to the BC Prosecution Service. CFAX&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-154292","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\/154292","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=154292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}