{"id":550601,"date":"2026-03-21T06:10:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550601\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:10:52","slug":"scary-east-vancouver-home-invasion-and-kidnapping-ends-in-police-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550601\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary East Vancouver home invasion and kidnapping ends in police chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 62-year-old man is recovering in hospital after he was the victim of a terrifying incident that started at a Vancouver home earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) report that they received a 911 call about a home invasion and a kidnapping in East Vancouver at approximately 9:15 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA 62-year-old man was allegedly taken from his home and forced into a vehicle,\u201d said VPD in a release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApproximately 30 minutes later, the suspect vehicle was spotted near Slocan and East Broadway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Vancouver kidnapping\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2118638\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Taxi-driver-stabbing-1024x683.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2118638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RickDeacon\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vpd.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VPD<\/a> added that the Vancouver kidnapping suspects did not stop for police and were pursued to the neighbourhood of 14th Avenue and Woodland Drive, where officers boxed in the suspects\u2019 vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two suspects fled the vehicle, but were taken into custody with the assistance of the VPD\u2019s Canine Unit,\u201d said police. \u201cThe victim was taken to hospital with injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The suspects, 26-year-old Fazeel Salman and 24-year-old Reignings Besong Awah, have each been charged with one count of kidnapping. VPD said that the pair remain in custody.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a busy time recently for the Vancouver police.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"vancouver police\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2198593\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Vancouver-Police-Department-jobs-1024x683.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2198593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam Hill-Allan\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>On March 18, just before 4 p.m., a 59-year-old woman was at West 8th Avenue and Spruce Street, using a walker.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/vancouver-police-arrest-purse-snatcher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">41-year-old man reportedly grabbed her purse<\/a>. The woman fell to the ground, resulting in some minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A driver saw the incident occur, stopped his vehicle, and chased the suspect.\u00a0The witness went back to the scene with the purse and gave police a description of the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to this description, our officers located the suspect moments later near the seawall,\u201d said Constable Megan Lui.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/vancouver-police-warning-violent-offender-released-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VPD has also issued a warning to the public about a violent offender who has been released back into the community<\/a> less than a month after a brazen escape attempt.<\/p>\n<p>According to the VPD, Jordan McIntosh was previously released into the community last September to serve a conditional sentence order related to two counts of assault and one count of breach of a release order from an incident in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>McIntosh\u2019s release had several conditions, including that he wear an ankle monitor. However, he cut off the device and went on the run in early December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 62-year-old man is recovering in hospital after he was the victim of a terrifying incident that started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-550601","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\/550601","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=550601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}