{"id":479472,"date":"2026-02-17T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479472\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:25:09","slug":"man-33-charged-in-unprovoked-valentines-day-assault-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479472\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 33, charged in unprovoked Valentine\u2019s Day assault in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested a man in connection with an unprovoked Valentine\u2019s Day assault in downtown Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the victim was walking in the Kensington Market neighbourhood, near Spadina Avenue and Nassau Street just before 4 p.m. on February 14 when a man approached them and discharged a substance believed to be pepper spray into their face.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the man fled the scene south on Spadina Avenue. He was located by authorities on Monday and placed under arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has been identified as 33-year-old Anthony Bernhardt of no fixed address. He was charged with several offences, including assault with a weapon, administering a noxious substance with intent to endanger life and breach of probation.<\/p>\n<p>He was scheduled to appear in a Toronto court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested a man in connection with an unprovoked Valentine\u2019s Day assault in downtown Toronto. Investigators say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-479472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479472","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=479472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}