{"id":548095,"date":"2026-03-20T02:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548095\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T02:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:45:08","slug":"toronto-police-charge-rideshare-driver-with-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548095\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police charge rideshare driver with sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A rideshare driver from Caledon has been charged after a passenger was sexually assaulted during a trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police said the driver allegedly made a sexual comment to the passenger, a 21-year-old man, during the ride on Feb. 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver then stopped the car and got into the back seat where the passenger was, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He allegedly sexually assaulted the passenger and afterwards left him on the sidewalk and fled in his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65471\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65471\/\">news release on Thursday<\/a>, police announced they arrested 33-year-old Harsimranjot Dhillon earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has been charged with sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they are concerned there may be more victims and are asking anyone with information to contact them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rideshare driver from Caledon has been charged after a passenger was sexually assaulted during a trip. Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-548095","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\/548095","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=548095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}