{"id":52002,"date":"2025-08-07T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/52002\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:26:14","slug":"woman-sexually-assaulted-by-man-who-offered-ride-home-after-canada-day-edmonton-police-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/52002\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sexually assaulted by man who offered ride home after Canada Day: Edmonton police &#8211; Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton police are looking for help identifying a man suspected of offering a woman a ride home, but instead taking her to a secluded area and sexually assaulting her around Canada Day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The incident happened around 1:30 a.m. on July 2, when a woman near Jasper Avenue and 113 Street was attempting to secure an <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/uber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Uber<\/a> ride home.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when police said an unknown man in a car stopped and offered her a ride for free.<\/p>\n<p>Police have since confirmed the suspect is not an Uber driver, and did not identify himself as such when offering the ride.<\/p>\n<p>When the woman got into the vehicle, police said the man drove her to a residential construction site in the Blatchford neighbourhood and sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n<p>He then drove away, leaving the woman behind in the sparsely-populated under-construction area of central Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAn Edmonton Police Service composite sketch of a sexual assault suspect.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tEdmonton Police Service\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The male suspect stated his name was \u201cPharoah\u201d and that he was from Egypt, EPS said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753128969_722_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>He is described as approximately 29 years old with short black hair, well-groomed facial hair, a muscular build, and an \u201cArabic\u201d accent. His approximate weight and height was not provided.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect was reportedly wearing a button-up long-sleeved dress shirt and dress pants. He drove a black Audi, believed to be the A4 model, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11320784\/martha-nolan-oslatarra-dead-yacht-montauk-yacht-club-new-york\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754569573_592_Untitled-design-8.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPolice investigate mysterious death of fashion designer on New York yacht\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11318585\/dubai-chocolate-recall\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754569573_598_canadian-food-inspection-agency.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tDubai brand chocolate recalled in Canada over salmonella risk\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'B.C. man posing as Uber driver charged with sexual assault'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2300_PHONY_UBER_DRIVER__BC10C5JX_thumbnail_1280x720.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:56<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tB.C. man posing as Uber driver charged with sexual assault\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Police have released a composite sketch of the suspect in hopes it may lead to tips about his identity.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the nature of the sexual assault, EPS said investigators believe there may be additional complainants and are asking anyone who may have experienced a similar incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who believes they may have been victimized by the suspect, or who has information about the suspect\u2019s identity is asked to contact the\u00a0Edmonton Police Service at 780-423-4567\u00a0or #377 from a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous information can also be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/tipform.aspx?ID=250#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Edmonton police are looking for help identifying a man suspected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2169,17442,44,7739,4124],"class_list":["post-52002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-edmonton-crime","tag-news","tag-sexual-assault","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52002","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=52002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}