{"id":206619,"date":"2025-10-12T03:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206619\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T03:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:53:07","slug":"downtown-toronto-park-robbery-2-suspects-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206619\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Toronto park robbery: 2 suspects sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two suspects are wanted in connection with an armed robbery at a park in downtown Toronto on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64267\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64267\/\">Toronto police said<\/a> two suspects approached an individual at the park near Queen Street West and Beverley Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The two suspects, one of whom allegedly produced a firearm and the other a knife, demanded the victim\u2019s wallet, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They ended up allegedly stealing a quantity of cash and the victim\u2019s backpack. Police said the suspects then fled on bicycles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64267\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64267\/\">In a news release on Saturday,<\/a> police identified one suspect as 26-year-old Tarone Whalen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is wanted for possession of a firearm without holding a licence, robbery with a firearm, uttering threats, three counts of possession of a firearm contrary to a prohibition order, and two counts of failure to comply with a probation order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they have not identified the other suspect, who is described as a Black male, five-foot-five with a medium build and short black hair, and was last seen wearing a grey shirt and black pants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information about the whereabouts of the two suspects is being asked to contact police at 416-808-5200 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two suspects are wanted in connection with an armed robbery at a park in downtown Toronto on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-206619","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\/206619","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=206619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}