{"id":708818,"date":"2026-06-01T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/708818\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:38:08","slug":"toronto-police-seize-over-3m-worth-of-fake-soccer-merch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/708818\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police seize over $3M worth of fake soccer merch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 0:58<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">A 41-year-old from Milton, Ont., and a 62-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., have both been arrested and charged with fraud over $5,000, alongside multiple other fraud-related charges, in what police are calling the largest seizure of counterfeit soccer merchandise in Canadian history.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the fake items purported to be name brands like FIFA, Nike and Puma, and amounted to an estimated street value of over $3.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 hours agoNewsDuration 0:58 A 41-year-old from Milton, Ont., and a 62-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., have both been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-708818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708818","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=708818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}