{"id":571150,"date":"2026-03-30T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571150\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:30:08","slug":"toronto-police-search-for-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571150\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police search for suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man is wanted after one person was choked and thrown to the ground in separate incidents in East York last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police said they were initially called to the area of Lumsden and Woodbine avenues on Sunday following reports that a man had threatened another person during a conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Further investigation determined that the two were also engaged in a verbal dispute on March 25, and it escalated, resulting in the man choking the other person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A day after that, another verbal dispute between the two ended in the man allegedly striking the person and throwing them to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the man also made threats to the victim during the assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65549\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65549\/\">In a news release on Monday<\/a>, they identified the suspect as 28-year-old Mario Norbert Fajko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is wanted for two counts of uttering threats, death or bodily harm, assault, and assault\/choking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fajko is described as being five-foot-three with a medium build, dark hair and dark facial hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are asking anyone with information to contact them or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is wanted after one person was choked and thrown to the ground in separate incidents in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-571150","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\/571150","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=571150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}