{"id":717669,"date":"2026-06-05T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717669\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:58:12","slug":"brampton-police-officer-assault-suspect-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717669\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton police officer assault: suspect wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Peel police are searching for a suspect accused of striking a patrol officer with his car to evade arrest during a traffic stop in Brampton last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the officer noticed a vehicle parked near Peel Centre Drive in the evening of May 26 had improper licence plates, so they conducted a traffic stop to investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During the interaction, the driver allegedly became uncooperative and abruptly ran away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAfter a foot pursuit, the suspect resisted arrest, assaulting the officer during a physical struggle,\u201d police allege <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peelpolice.ca\/news-feed\/posts\/suspect-wanted-after-assaulting-officer-fleeing-traffic-stop-in-brampton-pr260176683\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.peelpolice.ca\/news-feed\/posts\/suspect-wanted-after-assaulting-officer-fleeing-traffic-stop-in-brampton-pr260176683\/\">in a news release on Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver, police said, was able to break free and run back to his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIn a reckless attempt to escape, the suspect drove off, striking both the officer and the marked patrol vehicle before fleeing the scene,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The officer sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The vehicle is a grey 2007 four-door BMW 525i with Ontario licence plate CSLJ609.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In Friday\u2019s news release, police identified the suspect as 41-year-old David Munoz. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is wanted for assaulting a peace officer, assault with a weapon, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, breach of probation and failure to comply with a release order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said he was prohibited from driving at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peel police are searching for a suspect accused of striking a patrol officer with his car to evade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[712,51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-717669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-apple-news","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717669","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=717669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}