{"id":496775,"date":"2026-02-24T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496775\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:54:10","slug":"edmonton-police-warn-of-string-of-robberies-during-kijiji-facebook-marketplace-meetups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496775\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton police warn of string of robberies during Kijiji, Facebook Marketplace meetups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton police say they\u2019ve received 15 reports of personal robberies during Kijiji and Facebook Marketplace meetups in the last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton Police Service says the robberies are happening during sales of higher-priced items like cell phones and brand-name clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say a suspect posing as a buyer meets with the seller and evaluates the item for sale. Then at least one accomplice shows up and together they rob the seller of the item.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, according to police, the suspects utter threats. In one case reported to police, the suspects are said to have shown a gun.<\/p>\n<p>The first robberies in the series occurred in southwest Edmonton in the Duggan area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut reports have since come from multiple areas of the city. Investigators are warning people to be vigilant when arranging online sales meetups,\u201d EPS said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they arrested three male teenagers on Jan. 31 in connection to one of the first reported robberies in the series. They were each charged with theft under $5,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton police say they\u2019ve received 15 reports of personal robberies during Kijiji and Facebook Marketplace meetups in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-496775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496775","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=496775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}