{"id":794032,"date":"2026-07-11T01:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T01:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/794032\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T01:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T01:45:12","slug":"traffic-stop-leads-to-unexpected-discovery-by-police-in-mississauga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/794032\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic stop leads to unexpected discovery by police in Mississauga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A traffic stop for careless driving on Highway 401 in Mississauga on Tuesday afternoon led police to a few illegal items they didn\u2019t initially expect to find.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario Provincial Police said a vehicle being driven \u201ccarelessly\u201d on the busy highway near Mavis Road was pulled over at around 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent investigation by police led to the discovery and seizure of various items including a replica handgun, break-and-enter tools, bear spray, illicit drugs (mushrooms and cannabis) and masks\/face coverings, OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said in an online post on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>An adult and three youths have been charged with weapons and drug offences, police said, adding the adult was also charged with careless driving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the youths was held for a bail hearing, police noted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1706\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-832429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/OPP-gun-seized.jpg\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>(Photos: Ontario Provincial Police)<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/editorial-guidelines\" class=\"editorial-guidelines-link d-block mb-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            INsauga&#8217;s Editorial Standards and Policies        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last 30 Days: 44,188 Votes<\/p>\n<p>All Time: 1,425,177 Votes<\/p>\n<p>    1818 VOTES<br \/>\n    Do you think Canada did a good job of hosting the World Cup?    <\/p>\n<p>\tWIN A $100 GIFT CARD<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to INsauga\u2019s daily email newsletter for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A traffic stop for careless driving on Highway 401 in Mississauga on Tuesday afternoon led police to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-794032","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\/794032","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=794032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}