{"id":795135,"date":"2026-07-11T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/795135\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:02:23","slug":"canadian-wanted-in-ontario-arrested-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/795135\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian wanted in Ontario arrested in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a video posted by Medellin Mayor Federico Guti\u00e9rrez, Arif Jhuman was arrested at what appears to be a gym in the Colombian city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Canadian man who\u2019s been on the run from Ontario police since 2023 was recently arrested at a gym in Colombia for his alleged involvement in an international weapons trafficking network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) announced on Friday that Arif Jhuman was taken into custody in Medell\u00edn, more than three years after a Canada-wide warrant was issued for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jhuman, 39, had gone \u201cunlawfully at large\u201d on Jan. 24, 2023, while serving a nearly 12-year sentence for drugs and drug-trafficking offences, according to the OPP. Police said he was previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cq8EOXNrzCC\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">known to frequent Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In late 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-mdfl\/pr\/two-men-arrested-international-firearms-trafficking-conspiracy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jhuman was named in an indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice<\/a> for his role in an alleged international firearm trafficking conspiracy. Prosecutors in Florida charged that Jhuman was among five suspects, including two other Canadians, who trafficked and conspired to traffic more than 100 firearms from Florida into Canada in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The DOJ said at the time that of those firearms, 29 were recovered from Canadian crime scenes, including homicides. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Heavily armed police officers were seen taking Jhuman into custody at what appears to be a gym in a video posted by Medellin Mayor Federico Guti\u00e9rrez earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a post translated from Spanish, Guti\u00e9rrez said that Jhuman was going by the alias \u201cGillani,\u201d at the time of his arrest. He said the takedown was a joint operation between Colombia\u2019s narcotics squad, Interpol, and other international agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While it\u2019s unclear how or when Jhuman entered Colombia, Guti\u00e9rrez said he likely did so using false documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMedell\u00edn is not for criminals,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a video posted by Medellin Mayor Federico Guti\u00e9rrez, Arif Jhuman was arrested at what appears to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-795135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795135","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=795135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}