{"id":679888,"date":"2026-05-19T15:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679888\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:34:22","slug":"toronto-victoria-day-fireworks-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679888\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Victoria Day fireworks arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video captured by a viewer shows a chaotic scene at Woodbine Beach on Victoria Day after fireworks were shot into a crowd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two people who allegedly shot fireworks into a crowd of people during Toronto\u2019s Victoria Day celebrations are facing charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement to CP24, Toronto police said the two suspects are a male youth and a male in his 20s. Neither has been identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Videos from Ashbridges Bay submitted to CTV News showed someone aiming what appeared to be a lit \u201croman candle\u201d at crowds on the beach and boardwalk, as some people screamed and ran to get out of the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police said three other individuals were arrested for theft and assault, but released no additional details regarding those charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The arrests were made on the same night that Toronto hosted its annual Victoria Day fireworks display at the waterfront site. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police have stepped up their presence during the event in recent years after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/riot-police-on-standby-if-torontos-victoria-day-weekend-celebrations-get-out-of-hand-tps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/riot-police-on-standby-if-torontos-victoria-day-weekend-celebrations-get-out-of-hand-tps\/\">chaos ensued in 2022<\/a>, when two people were shot, two were robbed at gunpoint, one person was stabbed, and groups of people began shooting fireworks at each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video captured by a viewer shows a chaotic scene at Woodbine Beach on Victoria Day after fireworks were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-679888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679888","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=679888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}