{"id":608802,"date":"2026-04-16T21:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608802\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:20:15","slug":"brampton-man-charged-in-theft-of-jamaican-hurricane-relief-supplies-last-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608802\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton man charged in theft of Jamaican hurricane relief supplies last December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 40-year-old Brampton man is facing charges in connection with the theft of hurricane relief supplies destined for Jamaica in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Peel Region say someone broke into a secured public storage facility at 3805 Nashua Drive, near Derry Road East and Goreway Drive, just after 5 a.m. on December 3, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing a transport truck, the suspect hitched a trailer with a shipping container and fled the area,\u201d police said in a release on Thursday. \u201cWithin the container was thousands of dollars in relief supplies such as clothing and non-perishables, which was awaiting shipment to Jamaica to aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following an investigation, police identified a suspect, and on March 11, 2026, Varinder Dhillon was taken into custody and faces 12 theft and probation-related offences, including break and enter and committing an indictable offence.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Varinder is currently on probation for similar offences and has been prohibited from driving indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the stolen property that was destined for hurricane relief was recovered and shipped to Kingston, Jamaica, where a Category 5 storm struck the island last October, killing 45 people and displacing more than 25,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old Brampton man is facing charges in connection with the theft of hurricane relief supplies destined for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-608802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608802","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=608802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}