{"id":486608,"date":"2026-02-20T01:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486608\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T01:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:59:14","slug":"huron-east-man-charged-after-lost-gun-found-in-mississauga-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486608\/","title":{"rendered":"Huron East man charged after lost gun found in Mississauga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Huron East man has learned the hard way about the consequences of failing to notify police when a gun is lost or stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Huron OPP were contacted by Peel Regional police in January after its officers recovered a handgun in Mississauga that was registered to a man in Huron East. Following an investigation, police arrested the gun&#8217;s owner.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, police announced a 52-year-old Huron East man is charged with failure to report a lost firearm and careless storage of a firearm, weapon, or ammunition. The man has been released from custody and is scheduled to appear in Goderich court in relation to the charge on March 16.<\/p>\n<p>Police offered no additional information on how the handgun ended up in Mississauga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Huron East man has learned the hard way about the consequences of failing to notify police when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":{"0":"post-486608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mississauga","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mississauga"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486608","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=486608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}