{"id":187212,"date":"2025-10-03T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187212\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:40:08","slug":"hamilton-police-search-for-3-people-after-alleged-distraction-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187212\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton police search for 3 people after alleged distraction theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton police are searching for three people following an alleged distraction theft in the city\u2019s east end last month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hamilton police are searching for three people following an alleged distraction theft in the city\u2019s east end last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the reported theft happened on Sept. 24 at around 1:15 p.m. in the area of Main Street East and Parkdale Avenue North.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man was standing in front of his home when an older model black Ford Explorer pulled up, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Three people were in the vehicle and the front female passenger began speaking to the man before she \u201cpulled him by the neck toward the vehicle while placing a necklace on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While she was doing this, police say she and the two other people in the car spoke to the man while one of them removed his gold necklace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say two of the people in the vehicle were females. One is described as being in her 40s with a large build, tan complexion, black hair that was tied back, and wearing a red shirt. The second is in her 30s with a thin build, tan complexion, brown hair, and was wearing a black and white shirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The male driver is described by police as being in his 30s, with a tan complexion and bald.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Last month, Hamilton police released doorbell camera footage of another daytime distraction theft targeting a senior at a home in Flamborough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information about the latest incident is asked to contact police at 905-546-2963, or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton police are searching for three people following an alleged distraction theft in the city\u2019s east end last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-187212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187212","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=187212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}