{"id":694240,"date":"2026-05-26T06:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694240\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T06:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:08:17","slug":"vaughan-massage-therapist-charged-with-sexual-assault-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694240\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaughan massage therapist charged with sexual assault: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>York Regional Police (YRP) have charged a registered massage therapist after a woman reported being sexually assaulted during an appointment at a Vaughan wellness clinic earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the incident happened on May 9 at a clinic in the area of Rutherford Road and Vellore Woods Boulevard. According to police, the victim attended a scheduled massage when, during the appointment, the therapist allegedly touched her for a sexual purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was arrested two days later, on May 11, and has been charged with sexual assault. Police have identified the accused as Thong (Tony) Tran, 55, of Brampton.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have released an image of Tran, saying they believe there may be additional victims who have not yet come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"York Regional Police (YRP) have charged a registered massage therapist after a woman reported being sexually assaulted during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-694240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694240","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=694240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}