{"id":598355,"date":"2026-04-12T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598355\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:44:08","slug":"scarborough-break-ins-suspect-facing-89-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598355\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarborough break-ins: suspect facing 89 charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 40-year-old man is facing nearly 90 charges in connection with a series of commercial break-and-enters in Scarborough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say the businesses that were targeted are in the area of Victoria Park Avenue and Ellesmere Road, and Victoria Park Avenue and Lawrence Avenue East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The alleged break-ins happened between Nov. 2025 and April 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said a suspect allegedly smashed doors and windows to gain entry and once inside, he ransacked the premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cash registers and other valuables were targeted, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Saturday, police announced that they arrested Derek Bailey of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has been charged with 27 counts of breach of probation, 16 counts of break and enter commit, 16 counts of mischief under $5,000, 10 counts of theft under $5,000, and 10 counts of possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bailey is also facing nine counts of assault with a weapon and one count of uttering death threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old man is facing nearly 90 charges in connection with a series of commercial break-and-enters in Scarborough.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-598355","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\/598355","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=598355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}