{"id":592896,"date":"2026-04-09T17:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592896\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:08:13","slug":"man-charged-after-fleeing-etobicoke-ride-program-in-stolen-vehicle-injuring-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592896\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after fleeing Etobicoke RIDE program in stolen vehicle, injuring cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have arrested and charged a 24-year-old man who allegedly fled from an impaired driving spot check in a stolen vehicle, injuring a officer in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident happened just before midnight on March 21 on the Highway 427 northbound on-ramp at The Queensway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Toronto Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police\u2019s (OPP) Highway Safety Division said they were conducting a RIDE program in that area when a notification from an Automatic License Plate Reader indicated a possible stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers then proceeded to stop the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say while speaking with the driver outside of the vehicle, the passenger entered the driver\u2019s seat, put the vehicle in drive, and fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIn the process, the suspect vehicle collided with a passenger vehicle, an unoccupied police cruiser, and police officers. One of the officers was taken to hospital and sustained minor injuries,\u201d they said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the OPP\u2019s Offender Management Apprehension Program and its Bail Support Team, with help from Toronto Police Service\u2019s 33 Division Major Crime Unit, located the suspect in Toronto and arrested him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Khaleil McDonald, 24, of no fixed address, is facing 12 charges, including assault with intent to resist arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was remanded into custody following a bail hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested and charged a 24-year-old man who allegedly fled from an impaired driving spot check in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-592896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592896","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=592896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}