{"id":622300,"date":"2026-04-23T01:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:49:10","slug":"brampton-man-facing-fraud-related-charges-in-connection-with-phony-home-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622300\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton man facing fraud-related charges in connection with phony home repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old Brampton man is facing a number of fraud charges after two elderly victims were scammed into making phony home repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police say a group of men approached the victims in July 2024, presenting themselves as legitimate contractors and workers with the City of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victims\u00a0paid for \u201croof repairs\u201d, \u201cmandatory backyard clean-ups\u201d and \u201cemergency home repairs,\u201d police said in a release on Wednesday. The repairs were\u00a0never completed or required.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On April 21, 2026, 23-year-old Arashdeep Singh was arrested and charged with three counts of fraud over $5,000, three counts of possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, two counts of laundering proceeds of Canadian crime, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, and possession of proceeds of crime under $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe there may be other victims and have released Singh\u2019s photo. They also say he operated under the following business names: Xcellent Custom Homes Ltd., Friendly Masonry Ltd., and 17051450 Canada Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the police. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old Brampton man is facing a number of fraud charges after two elderly victims were scammed into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-622300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brampton","8":"tag-brampton","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622300","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=622300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}