{"id":53834,"date":"2025-08-08T05:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53834\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T05:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:59:09","slug":"video-appears-to-show-joyride-through-vancouver-streets-police-investigating-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53834\/","title":{"rendered":"Video appears to show joyride through Vancouver streets, police investigating &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver police officers are reminding everyone not to leave their vehicles unattended and running, even if it is just for a quick errand.<\/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>On Monday, Aug. 4, police said a vehicle owner parked near Abbott and West Pender streets and left the car running with the keys inside.<\/p>\n<p>Const. Jason Doucette said that was just enough time for a woman to come along and drive off in the car.<\/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>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t until about 10 o\u2019clock that night we received another phone call from a concerned citizen near 63rd and Ontario Street about a vehicle running unoccupied in front of their house for the past two hours,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVancouver police went there and indeed it was the same car that was stolen earlier in the day, at West Pender and Abbott.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Doucette said this is a good reminder for drivers to always secure their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11321040\/canada-mexico-trade-sheinbaum\/\" 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\/1754632749_896_3697e47d2144e77fcc6964d6ff1c732a465e9a5ef0c53e9b255f7cb4686f5489.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMexico\u2019s Sheinbaum says \u2018no need\u2019 for bilateral trade deal with Canada\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11322265\/dean-cain-superman-man-ice\/\" 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\/1754632749_740_Untitled-design-18.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSuperman actor Dean Cain enrols as ICE agent, urges Americans to sign up\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does sound like the vehicle was driven throughout the city for a period of time, because there\u2019s a lot of time between early morning and say, eight o\u2019clock at night where that person would have been driving around,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Video posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DM_mxx_szvr\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">online by Instagram user @michaelpaularesta<\/a> shows the car swerving around traffic, running red lights and travelling in oncoming lanes.<\/p>\n<p>Doucette said a person of interest has been identified in the case and the investigation into what happened is ongoing.<\/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<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Vancouver police officers are reminding everyone not to leave their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2169,36218,44,36219],"class_list":["post-53834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-joyride","tag-news","tag-vancouver-car-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53834","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=53834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}