{"id":540462,"date":"2026-03-16T16:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540462\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:41:08","slug":"man-18-arrested-after-allegedly-ramming-police-cruisers-while-fleeing-home-invasion-cp24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540462\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 18, arrested after allegedly ramming police cruisers while fleeing home invasion \u2013 CP24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An 18-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly rammed two police cruisers while attempting to flee the scene of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarapolice.ca\/news\/posts\/one-male-arrested-during-home-invasion-in-st-catharines-four-more-suspects-outstanding\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.niagarapolice.ca\/news\/posts\/one-male-arrested-during-home-invasion-in-st-catharines-four-more-suspects-outstanding\/\">home invasion<\/a> in St. Catharines last week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say that five masked suspects armed with firearms arrived at an apartment near Lake Street and Welland Avenue just before 4 a.m. on March 13 in a vehicle that had been stolen from the City of Mississauga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is alleged that four of the suspects forced entry into the residence and stole personal possessions from an unspecified number of victims inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fifth suspect, meanwhile, remained in the stolen vehicle during the home invasion and served as a getaway driver. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say that officers arrived on scene within minutes and intercepted the suspects as they attempted to flee. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe suspect who remained in the stolen motor vehicle rammed two police cruisers, while the other suspects fled on foot. The suspect from the vehicle was arrested on scene,\u201d a news release notes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say neither the occupants of the residence nor any officers sustained any physical injuries in the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect taken into custody has been identified as 18-year-old Joshua Balkaran, of Elmira. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has been charged with 18 offences, including four counts of robbery with a firearm and four counts of forcible confinement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have released surveillance camera images of the four suspects who remain outstanding and are appealing to anyone with information to come forward. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly rammed two police cruisers while attempting to flee the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-540462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540462","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=540462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}