{"id":800134,"date":"2026-07-13T23:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800134\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:45:09","slug":"charge-approved-in-stranger-assault-investigation-following-vpd-appeal-for-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800134\/","title":{"rendered":"Charge approved in stranger assault investigation following VPD appeal for information"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCharge approved in stranger assault investigation following VPD appeal for information\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Vancouver \u2013 A charge has been approved in a stranger assault investigation after the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) released video of an assault involving the same suspect last month.<\/p>\n

Dylan Gaita, 29, has been charged with assault in connection with an incident on June 28 that was reported to police after the VPD issued an appeal to the public<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the June 28 incident, a pedestrian was walking on Commercial Drive at Charles Street when Gaita allegedly shoulder-checked him, causing the pedestrian to lose his balance. The pedestrian reported the incident on July 4 after seeing the VPD news release issued on June 30.<\/p>\n

Dylan Gaita remains in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charge approved in stranger assault investigation following VPD appeal for information Vancouver \u2013 A charge has been approved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-800134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800134","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=800134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}