{"id":810960,"date":"2026-07-18T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810960\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:31:09","slug":"man-and-woman-arrested-in-alleged-distraction-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810960\/","title":{"rendered":"Man and woman arrested in alleged distraction theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police are warning the public about distraction theft after a man and a woman were arrested following an incident allegedly involving a grandmother and her grandchild. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say that on May 18, an elderly woman and her grandchild were walking in the area of Falstaff Avenue and Culford Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They say a male suspect lured the child towards a van, while a female suspect started a conversation with the elderly woman. Police say the female suspect distracted the elderly victim while the male suspect distracted the minor and stole their jewelry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both suspects then fled the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say that the suspects have been arrested and charged. Constantin Porumbita, 41, and Bianca Mitran, 41, both of Toronto, each face a robbery charge and participating in\/contributing to criminal organization. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Porumbita is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday, July 30 and Mitran is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, July 20. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say there are likely more victims and have shared photos of the suspects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are warning the public about distraction theft after a man and a woman were arrested following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-810960","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\/810960","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=810960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}