{"id":335645,"date":"2025-12-10T00:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335645\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:14:08","slug":"toronto-police-officer-facing-theft-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335645\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police officer facing theft charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Toronto police officer is facing charges after allegedly stealing found property, instead of arranging to return it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said when the officer was working the front desk at 52 Division on Sept. 4 he allegedly failed to log the found items and try to return them to their owner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators did not say how many items were allegedly taken. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"http:\/\/tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64758\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a>, police said Const. Timothy Deacon, 50, has been charged with with theft, obstruct peace officer, and breach of trust. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The charges have not been tested in court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deacon has worked for Toronto Police Service for 16 years and is currently assigned to 52 Division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As per the provisions of the Community Safety and Policing Act, he has been suspended with pay. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Toronto police officer is facing charges after allegedly stealing found property, instead of arranging to return it.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335646,"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-335645","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\/335645","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=335645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}