{"id":743118,"date":"2026-06-17T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743118\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:50:11","slug":"man-charged-in-attempted-abduction-of-child-in-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743118\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged in attempted abduction of child in Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PAGE-8-LOGO-SPS.webp\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"928\" class=\"lazyload entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PAGE-8-LOGO-SPS-696x928.webp\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"PAGE 8 LOGO SPS\"\/><\/a>            <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SURREY Police Service (SPS) is currently investigating an attempted child abduction by a stranger this past weekend that has resulted in a man being charged with Criminal Code\u00a0offences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Saturday, June 13 at 6:38 p.m., SPS frontline officers responded to an attempted abduction of a child by a stranger in the 8100-block 136A Street after a child, who was outside playing in a driveway, was allegedly approached by a stranger and physically picked up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bystanders saw the incident and intervened, causing the stranger to put the child down and leave the area. A man matching the description of the suspect was detained by bystanders a short distance away until police arrived and took him into custody. The child was not physically injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liam Robert Dobbs-Morency, a 22-year-old male, has been charged with one count of abduction of a person under 14 years of age, and one count of possession of a prohibited weapon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPS\u2019s Major Crime Section (MCS) has taken the lead on the investigation, which is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dobbs-Morency made his first court appearance on Sunday, June14 and has been remanded in custody. His next court appearance is scheduled for Thursday, June 18.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SURREY Police Service (SPS) is currently investigating an attempted child abduction by a stranger this past weekend that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[879,49,48,2169,87674],"class_list":["post-743118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743118","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=743118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}