{"id":776336,"date":"2026-07-02T21:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776336\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:38:15","slug":"mississauga-man-charged-in-barrie-police-child-luring-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776336\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississauga Man Charged in Barrie Police Child Luring Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" id=\"image-843-67\" alt=\"Barrie Police seized several electronic devices as part of a child luring investigation. Image provided by Barrie Police Service\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/JULY-2-PERV-990x495.jpg\" class=\"ct-image articleImage\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Barrie Police Child Exploitation Unit seized several electronic devices during a child luring investigation. Image provided by Barrie Police Service<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A two-month child luring investigation by Barrie Police has resulted in a 34-year-old Mississauga man being charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Barrie Police Service Internet Child Exploitation Unit (ICE) received a report from Uniform Patrol concerning a child under 18 being lured and exploited online via social media platforms Instagram and Snapchat.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"973\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/evidence.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109294\"  \/>Image provided by Barrie Police Service<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ICE unit executed a search warrant on Thursday at a Mississauga residence. Police say several electronic devices belonging to the accused were seized for full forensic analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The suspect has been charged with luring a child under 18 and making sexually explicit material available to a child.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa7\u00a0 Listen to the daily headlines that matter most<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3WxzGJN7DEXbyjfXs9nE2q?si=2f30deb9994b4626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/daily-kickstart-news-headlines\/id1664851849\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> and wherever you get your podcasts to get notified of new episodes every day.                                    <\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this article?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Barrie Police Child Exploitation Unit seized several electronic devices during a child luring investigation. Image provided by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-776336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776336","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=776336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}