{"id":784790,"date":"2026-07-06T22:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784790\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:44:09","slug":"toronto-police-seek-suspect-after-parking-officer-struck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784790\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police seek suspect after parking officer struck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are searching for a suspect after a Toronto parking enforcement officer was struck by a vehicle following the issuance of a traffic ticket Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident happened in the area of Queen\u2019s Quay East and Richardson Street shortly before 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the parking enforcement officer was issuing a ticket to the driver of a white 2017 Mercedes-Benz C63S convertible when the driver returned to the vehicle. An arguement then ensued between the officer and the suspect, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police allege the driver began to drive away, striking the parking enforcement officer and another vehicle in the process.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LUI7T4HTQZBJ7NLFEJEWXGVUIA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"460\"\/>Mercedes TPS Police are searching for the driver of a white 2017 Mercedes Benz C63S convertible. (Toronto Police Services) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect continued to flee, driving westbound on Queens Quay East, police said in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66372\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66372\/\"> press release.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver of the vehicle is described as male with a medium build, and shoulder length hair in braids. He was wearing a black hat, white T-shirt, black shorts, and white shoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The charges have not been tested in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to contact investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a suspect after a Toronto parking enforcement officer was struck by a vehicle following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-784790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784790","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=784790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}