{"id":549867,"date":"2026-03-20T22:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549867\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:03:23","slug":"2-men-charged-with-kidnapping-after-vancouver-home-invasion-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549867\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men charged with kidnapping after Vancouver home invasion: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say two men have been charged with kidnapping after a home invasion in East Vancouver on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">About 30 minutes later, the suspect vehicle was spotted near Slocan Street and East Broadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was taken to hospital with injuries, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say two men have been charged with kidnapping after a home invasion in East Vancouver on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,75360,213816,49428,213814,55,131438,213815],"class_list":["post-549867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-east-vancouver","tag-fazeel-salman","tag-home-invasion","tag-reignings-besong-awah","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-police-department","tag-vpd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549867","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=549867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}