{"id":809197,"date":"2026-07-18T02:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809197\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:54:24","slug":"50-cent-request-leads-to-toronto-firearms-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809197\/","title":{"rendered":"50-cent request leads to Toronto firearms arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man is facing numerous firearms-related charges after allegedly approaching police officers and asking them for change Monday afternoon in North York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66457\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66457\/\">Police say<\/a> officers were sitting in a marked cruiser near Jane Street and Shoreham Drive when the suspect approached them and asked for 50 cents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect then walked into a nearby restaurant, that is when officers recognized the suspect who was already wanted on two outstanding warrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers then arrested the suspect, who police say was carrying a handgun loaded with 16 rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Following the arrest, officers executed a search warrant at an apartment near Jane Street and Driftwood Avenue. Police say they seized an additional 26 rounds of ammunition, a master vehicle key and a stolen Ontario licence plate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/YD6ZPWRGPFC6NFEONULS74YQBA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"800\"\/>Police seizure July 17 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Theron Sutherland, 20, of Toronto, is charged with multiple offences, including unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm, possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000 and carrying a concealed weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The charges have not been tested in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is facing numerous firearms-related charges after allegedly approaching police officers and asking them for change Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-809197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809197","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=809197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}