{"id":796022,"date":"2026-07-12T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796022\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:12:09","slug":"mississauga-vehicle-thefts-2nd-suspect-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796022\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississauga vehicle thefts: 2nd suspect arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 23-year-old man wanted in connection with a series of vehicle thefts in Mississauga that targeted residential parking garages has surrendered, Peel police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peelpolice.ca\/news-feed\/posts\/project-tail-light-update-second-suspect-arrested-in-auto-theft-investigation-pr260191494\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.peelpolice.ca\/news-feed\/posts\/project-tail-light-update-second-suspect-arrested-in-auto-theft-investigation-pr260191494\/\">In an update on Saturday,<\/a> police announced that Gurjeet Singh Virk from Erin, Ont., turned himself in on Thursday and was arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prior to his surrender, police issued an arrest warrant for his alleged involvement in the thefts and attempted thefts within underground parking garages near Hurontario Street and Burnhamthorpe Road East in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said several vehicles were stolen while some were damaged as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The thefts prompted police to launch \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peelpolice.ca\/news-feed\/posts\/major-auto-theft-investigation-leads-to-44-charges-and-second-wanted-suspect-pr260191494\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.peelpolice.ca\/news-feed\/posts\/major-auto-theft-investigation-leads-to-44-charges-and-second-wanted-suspect-pr260191494\">Project Taillight<\/a>,\u201d which saw officers execute search warrants at homes in Mississauga and Erin, Ont., resulting in the seizure of cellphones, key fobs, key-programming devices, vehicle-related documents and $1,465 in cash suspected to be crime proceeds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/2026\/07\/06\/police-make-arrest-in-rash-of-vehicle-thefts-from-underground-garages-in-mississauga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/2026\/07\/06\/police-make-arrest-in-rash-of-vehicle-thefts-from-underground-garages-in-mississauga\/\">Earlier this week, police announced<\/a> that one suspect named Prince, 21 years old from Mississauga, was arrested and charged with 21 theft offences and one count of breach of a release order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In Saturday\u2019s update, police said Singh Virk is facing the same charges as Prince.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe investigation remains ongoing. Evidence seized during the search warrants continues to be analyzed, and investigators are pursuing additional leads to identify any other individuals involved,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old man wanted in connection with a series of vehicle thefts in Mississauga that targeted residential parking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-796022","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\/796022","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=796022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}