{"id":686964,"date":"2026-05-22T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686964\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:21:09","slug":"toronto-man-wanted-for-nearly-20000-in-thefts-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686964\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto man wanted for nearly $20,000 in thefts: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police are seeking the public\u2019s help locating a man who they say is connected to a \u201crepeat offenders\u201d probe and is responsible for nearly $20,000 worth of thefts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say they launched their investigation in May 2025, after a \u201csurge\u201d in retail thefts across 11 Division. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe goal of the project was to identify repeat offenders and retail theft trends, link related investigations, and prevent further offences,\u201d police said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65992\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65992\/\">news release<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe project has resulted in numerous arrests and has helped remove repeat offenders from the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Between March 2 and May 21, 2026, police allege 44-year-old Joanny Portillo Martinez of no fixed address committed more than $17,500 worth of thefts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It wasn\u2019t until May 21 that investigators identified Martinez, adding that he is wanted for:<\/p>\n<p>Assault45 counts of theft under $5,00045 counts of fail to comply with probation<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to contact police or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are seeking the public\u2019s help locating a man who they say is connected to a \u201crepeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-686964","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\/686964","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=686964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}