{"id":43131,"date":"2025-08-03T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43131\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:02:07","slug":"homeowner-assaulted-during-east-toronto-break-in-suspect-at-large-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43131\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeowner assaulted during east Toronto break-in, suspect at-large: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have released images of a male suspect who allegedly assaulted a homeowner during a break-in at a home in Toronto\u2019s east end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident happened on Saturday near Main Street and Danforth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police said they responded to a call for a break-and-enter in that area at about 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say a homeowner found a male inside their residence and when confronted the suspect allegedly assaulted the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect then allegedly brandished a knife from his backpack and pointed it at the victim before fleeing the scene prior to officers\u2019 arrival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said he was last seen boarding a westbound train at Main Street Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect is described as 25 to 35 years old and standing six feet tall with a muscular build with short dark hair and a short goatee. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was last seen wearing a camo baseball hat, a grey t-shirt, a blue and white striped long sleeve shirt tied around his waist, black pants, and black and white running shoes with a black backpack, and carrying a black side bag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect is wanted for assault with a weapon, unlawfully in a dwelling, and weapons dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information is asked to contact Toronto police at 416-808-5500 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released images of a male suspect who allegedly assaulted a homeowner during a break-in at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-43131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43131","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=43131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}