{"id":482610,"date":"2026-02-18T08:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482610\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:31:20","slug":"man-facing-firearms-charges-after-being-arrested-in-east-end-of-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482610\/","title":{"rendered":"Man facing firearms charges after being arrested in east end of Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 41-year-old man is facing several firearms offences after being arrested by the Ottawa police in the east end of the city Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At about 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 16, officers responded to a call about a person who was possibly in possession of firearms in a vehicle near a residential address, police said in a news release Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was arrested at the scene, police said, and three handguns in the vehicle were seized. They said the individual was bound by court-imposed conditions prohibiting him from possessing firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Garip Hammoe is facing multiple charges related to breaching court-imposed conditions and unlawfully possessing, carrying and transporting firearms, including: Failing to follow a court order and breaching release conditions; careless handling and storage of firearms (three counts); carrying concealed firearms (three counts); possessing restricted or prohibited firearms without the required licence and registration (three counts); possessing firearms without a valid licence (three counts); and being in a vehicle while knowingly in possession of firearms (three counts).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The East Criminal Investigations Unit is still investigating, and anyone with information was asked to call them at 613-236-1222, extension 3566. Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-222-8477 or at crimestoppers.ca.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 41-year-old man is facing several firearms offences after being arrested by the Ottawa police in the east&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739,194907,194795,190884,194906],"class_list":{"0":"post-482610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-ottawa","11":"tag-ottawa-police","12":"tag-police-cruiser","13":"tag-prohibited-firearms","14":"tag-transporting-firearms"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482610","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=482610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}