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A 24-year-old Brampton, Ont., man is facing multiple charges related to prostitution and carrying a prohibited firearm in London. <\/p>\n
London police say they were doing routine outreach and safety checks at a hotel on Exeter Road in the city’s south end on Friday, when they found an online advertisement with “indicators of a possible third-party involvement” and planned to meet with the female advertiser. <\/p>\n
Officers with the service’s Human Trafficking Unit allege they found a man facilitating the sexual service and caught him leaving the hotel shortly thereafter. Once police approached, the man ran away but, police say, he left a loaded Glock 22 handgun\u00a0in the hallway.<\/p>\n
Police arrested the suspect and investigators determined the man didn’t have a valid licence or registration for the firearm. Police allege the man was facilitating the female’s activities in the sex trade. <\/p>\n
Police said they also seized two cellphones and a “quantity” of Canadian currency as part of the investigation. The 24-year-old has been charged with multiple offences including: <\/p>\n
Unauthorized possession of a firearm. Unauthorized possession of a prohibited or restricted weapon. Possess restricted or prohibited firearm knowingly not holding a licence. Possession of a prohibited or restricted weapon or prohibited device. Possess loaded regulated firearm. 3 counts of handle firearm, weapon prohibited device or ammunition in a careless manner. Carry a concealed weapon. Procuring \/ exercising control.Material benefit from sexual servicesAdvertising another person\u2019s sexual services.<\/p>\n
Police are asking anyone with information to contact them or Crime Stoppers. The accused remains in custody and is expected to appear in court on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-617597","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\/617597","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=617597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}