{"id":793138,"date":"2026-07-10T16:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793138\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:32:16","slug":"escaped-detainee-took-a-hostage-at-a-hospital-laval-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793138\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped detainee took a hostage at a hospital, Laval police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old man detained by Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) could face charges of armed assault, forcible confinement and evading legal custody after he triggered a police manhunt in Laval last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Laval police said the incident occurred around 7:30 p.m. on July 4, when the suspect, whom police would not identify before charges are laid, was in the custody of CBSA agents and had been sent to Cit\u00e9-de-la-Sant\u00e9 hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the suspect broke free from his guards and took a hostage, reportedly an 88-year-old woman who was visiting the hospital. She was released only after the suspect fled the hospital, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was shaken but not severely injured.<\/p>\n<p>The escape triggered a six-hour police manhunt in the city\u2019s Vimont district that ended when the suspect was tracked down with the aid of a canine unit.<\/p>\n<p>The office of criminal prosecutions will determine what charges will be filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old man detained by Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) could face charges of armed assault, forcible confinement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-793138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793138","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=793138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}