{"id":249433,"date":"2025-10-30T05:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249433\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:35:14","slug":"2-brampton-residents-charged-in-fake-carjacking-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249433\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Brampton residents charged in fake carjacking report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two people have been charged after allegedly lying that their vehicle was carjacked as part of a \u201ccomplex fraud scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario Provincial Police said they were notified of a carjacking near Mississauga and Old School roads on the evening of Sept. 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The complainant allegedly told officers that after being involved in a collision, two suspects, one armed with a gun, approached and stole their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OPP launched an investigation and found the complainant fabricated the carjacking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers then arrested two people, 38-year-old Raji Sharma and 40-year-old Meeraj Tandon, and charged them with public mischief and fraud over $5,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been charged after allegedly lying that their vehicle was carjacked as part of a \u201ccomplex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-249433","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\/249433","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=249433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}