{"id":648782,"date":"2026-05-05T06:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648782\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T06:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:25:11","slug":"man-charged-with-stealing-ceremonial-gong-from-cancer-centre-in-kitchener-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648782\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with stealing ceremonial gong from cancer centre in Kitchener \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KITCHENER \u2013 Police in Kitchener, Ont., say a man has been charged with stealing a ceremonial gong from a cancer centre.<\/p>\n<p>Waterloo Regional Police say they received a report earlier Monday about a theft at Midtown hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s alleged the man stole the gong from the cancer centre, run by the Waterloo Regional Health Network, a little more than a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69f95b192fc407514792c598jpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"6416\" data-pswp-height=\"4277\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69f95b192fc407514792c598jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"A Waterloo Regional Police vehicle is seen in Waterloo, Ont., Wednesday, June 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Nick Iwanyshyn\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA Waterloo Regional Police vehicle is seen in Waterloo, Ont., Wednesday, June 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Nick Iwanyshyn<\/p>\n<p>Gongs and bells are often used by patients in hospital cancer sections to mark the completion of their cancer treatments.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the 44-year-old accused has been charged with theft under $5,000 dollars and was held for a bail hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/newslettericons-jenz24.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for Jen Zoratti | Next\"\/><\/p>\n<p>They say the gong has not been found and anyone with information is to contact police.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 4, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KITCHENER \u2013 Police in Kitchener, Ont., say a man has been charged with stealing a ceremonial gong from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-648782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648782","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=648782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}