Toronto police are appealing to the public for help locating two women who are wanted in connection with a distraction theft investigation.<\/p>\n
According to authorities, a man was approached by two women on April 5 as he sat in his car in the Scarborough area, near Birchmount Road and Eglinton Avenue East.<\/p>\n
Police say the women distracted the victim by asking for directions. During that process, the victim\u2019s gold necklace was allegedly removed from his neck and replaced with a fake one.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear when the victim noticed that his jewelry had been taken, but police say the women fled the area in a black SUV.<\/p>\n
Less than two weeks later, detectives received another report about one of the same suspects. Authorities say she attempted to remove a second victim\u2019s gold chain near Ellesmere Road and Wye Valley Road, but was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n
She has been identified as 37-year-old Victoria Miclescu of Toronto and is wanted on two charges, including theft over $5,000 and attempted theft.<\/p>\n
Investigators are still working to identify the second woman from the April 5 theft and believe the pair are deliberately targeting elderly victims.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are appealing to the public for help locating two women who are wanted in connection with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-644141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644141","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=644141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}