{"id":737354,"date":"2026-06-15T02:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/737354\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T02:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:06:11","slug":"man-charged-after-allegedly-assaulting-people-on-the-danforth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/737354\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after allegedly assaulting people on the Danforth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged in connection with several assaults that were reported in the Danforth neighbourhood on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the area of Coxwell and Danforth Avenues at approximately 8:45 p.m. after several people were allegedly assaulted with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified as 41-year-old Tharshan Thaparanantham, is also accused of damaging several vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the assault and the type of weapon involved were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Thaparanantham was arrested and charged with six offences, including 12 counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of mischief to property under $5,000 and two counts of failing to comply with a probation order.<\/p>\n<p>He was scheduled to appear in court on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe that there may have been more victims and witnesses. Anyone with information is asked to contact police.<\/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 loading=\"lazy\" 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\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged in connection with several assaults that were reported in the Danforth neighbourhood on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-737354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737354","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=737354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}