{"id":482126,"date":"2026-02-18T03:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482126\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T03:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:30:17","slug":"ottawa-man-faces-charges-after-attempted-bank-robbery-ottawa-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482126\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa man faces charges after attempted bank robbery, Ottawa police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 37-year-old Ottawa man faces a number of charges after an attempted bank robbery and carjacking on Oct. 21, 2025, the Ottawa Police Service said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident took place in the 1900 block of St. Laurent Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The charges against Damien Iqualla include: Two counts of robbery with an offensive weapon; two counts of pointing a firearm; possession of a weapon with the purpose to commit an offence; theft of a motor vehicle with violence; and having face masked.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 37-year-old Ottawa man faces a number of charges after an attempted bank robbery and carjacking on Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[194794,49,48,194796,20739,194792,194795,194793],"class_list":{"0":"post-482126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa","8":"tag-bank-robbery","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-damien-iqualla","12":"tag-ottawa","13":"tag-ottawa-police-service","14":"tag-police-cruiser","15":"tag-tony-caldwell"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482126","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=482126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}