{"id":520268,"date":"2026-03-07T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520268\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:20:10","slug":"vancouver-police-rescue-woman-allegedly-being-confined-on-yacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520268\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver police rescue woman allegedly being confined on yacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) says officers pursued a yacht in the waters off the Point Grey neighbourhood on Thursday morning after a female passenger, allegedly being assaulted on board, had called police.<\/p>\n<p>The VPD says that their flagship did a \u201cpace and pin\u201d manoeuvre to approach the yacht before emergency response officers jumped aboard the moving craft in the Burrard Inlet.<\/p>\n<p>Once onboard the 12-metre yacht, the VPD\u2019s Emergency Response Team located firearms and arrested a \u201cviolent\u201d male suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was safely rescued, and the yacht was returned to Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Police are now preparing charges of assault and forcible confinement against the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The VPD say that the rescue mission was \u201cchallenging\u201d and took place in \u201cvery heavy conditions\u201d with waves up to 1.8 metres and 15-knot winds.<\/p>\n<p>Officers add that the department\u2019s new flagship, the R.G. McBeath V.C., made the operation possible in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel was just christened in October last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) says officers pursued a yacht in the waters off the Point Grey neighbourhood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-520268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520268","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=520268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}