{"id":778122,"date":"2026-07-03T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778122\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:05:13","slug":"n-w-t-rcmp-say-man-evading-police-arrested-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778122\/","title":{"rendered":"N.W.T. RCMP say man &#8216;evading police&#8217; arrested in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/north\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris Banksland, 46, is charged with assault, sexual assault and failure to comply with a release order.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Banksland is charged with assault and sexual assault<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/author\/natalie-pressman-1.6094796\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Natalie Pressman<\/a>  \u00b7 CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Jul 03, 2026 12:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Chris Banksland is described as Indigenous, with black hair and browns eyes. He is approximately five feet seven inches tall and 165 pounds.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783101913_255_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Chris Banksland, 46, has been located and arrested in Toronto on June 28. (RCMP\/GRC)<\/p>\n<p>A Northwest Territories man charged with assault, sexual assault and failure to comply with a release order is now in custody.<\/p>\n<p>On June 1, Ulukhaktok RCMP sought public assistance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/north\/nunavut-rcmp-banksland-search-9.7219499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">locate Chris Banksland<\/a>, 46, who police believed to be &#8220;actively evading police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>N.W.T. RCMP said Friday Banksland was arrested in Toronto by the Toronto Police Service June 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RCMP say arrangements are being made to bring Banksland back to the Northwest Territories to face the charges in court.  <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Chris Banksland, 46, is charged with assault, sexual assault and failure to comply with a release order.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-778122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778122","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=778122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}