{"id":650912,"date":"2026-05-06T05:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650912\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:42:10","slug":"brampton-man-charged-after-self-checkout-fraud-spree-in-guelph-caught-in-guelph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650912\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton Man Charged After Self-Checkout Fraud Spree in Guelph &#8211; Caught in Guelph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What appeared to be routine self-checkout purchases quickly raised red flags for multiple retailers across Guelph. Months later, investigators say a public appeal helped lead to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>A Brampton man has been arrested after four businesses were defrauded by someone scanning cheaper items at self-checkouts.<\/p>\n<p>On February 7, a man attended four businesses within a one-hour period. At each he selected cases of baby formula valued at $97 each, but scanned an item valued at less than $1. The loss to the businesses was nearly $1,000.<\/p>\n<p>A suspect was identified after images were shared in a Guelph Police Service news release. On Friday a 24-year-old Brampton man was arrested for seven counts of fraud under $5,000. He will appear in court July 28. (Occurrence number GU26013029)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What appeared to be routine self-checkout purchases quickly raised red flags for multiple retailers across Guelph. Months later,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48,208193,1050,149153,208194,208195,208196],"class_list":["post-650912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-city-of-guelph","tag-community","tag-guelph","tag-guelph-community","tag-guelph-police","tag-guelph-police-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650912","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=650912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}