{"id":559182,"date":"2026-03-25T06:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559182\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:46:09","slug":"woman-wanted-after-gun-found-in-toronto-hotel-turns-herself-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559182\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman wanted after gun found in Toronto hotel turns herself in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A woman who was wanted after a gun was found in a hotel in downtown Toronto over the weekend has been arrested and charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say on March 22 at around 3 p.m. officers attended a hotel near King Street West and Blue Jays Way for reports of a suspicious incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Malek El Sayah, 30, of Mississauga, was subsequently arrested and charged with a number of firearm possession offences as well as one count of possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime exceeding $5,000 and three counts of possession of a schedule 1 substance for the purpose of trafficking. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The charges have not been tested in court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was scheduled to appear in bail on March 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say a second suspect, 31-year-old Daniela Young, of London, Ont., turned herself in to police on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She has been charged with possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized, unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm, possession of prohibited\/restricted weapon or prohibited device knowing no authority (over capacity magazine), and possession of a firearm while prohibited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Young was scheduled to appear in bail court on March 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information is asked to contact Toronto police at 416-808-5200 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who was wanted after a gun was found in a hotel in downtown Toronto over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-559182","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\/559182","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=559182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}