{"id":549773,"date":"2026-03-20T21:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549773\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:03:17","slug":"2-men-charged-with-kidnapping-after-vancouver-home-invasion-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549773\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men charged with kidnapping after Vancouver home invasion: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Police say two men have been charged with kidnapping after a home invasion in East Vancouver on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fazeel Salman, 26, and Reignings Besong Awah, 24, have each been charged with one count of kidnapping, according to a news release from the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they received a 911 call reporting a home invasion and kidnapping at around 9:15 p.m. PT. Police did not share the location of the home involved.<\/p>\n<p>A 62-year-old man was &#8220;allegedly taken from his home and forced into a vehicle,&#8221; according to the VPD release.<\/p>\n<p>About 30 minutes later, the suspect vehicle was spotted near Slocan Street and East Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The suspects did not stop for police, and were pursued to the area of 14th Avenue and Woodland Drive, where officers boxed in their vehicle,&#8221; said the release.<\/p>\n<p>The two men fled the vehicle, but were arrested with the help of a police dog unit, according to the VPD. The suspects remain in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to hospital with injuries, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-549773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549773","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=549773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}