{"id":811228,"date":"2026-07-19T01:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/811228\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T01:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:34:08","slug":"suspect-in-assault-investigation-sought-toronto-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/811228\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in assault investigation sought: Toronto police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police are asking for the public\u2019s help in finding a suspect wanted in an assault and threatening investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Tuesday, June 23, police were called to a report of a theft in the Kennedy Road and Progress Avenue area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They allege that the suspect visited a grocery story and loaded a shopping cart with items from the freezer section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect allegedly put the items inside their backpack and walked past the cash registers without paying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A store prevention loss officer confronted the suspect outside the store\u2019s doors and tried to restrain them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect allegedly assaulted the employee and then brandished a knife, threatening to kill them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They then fled the area on foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police describe the suspect as approximately 40-years-old with a medium build and a goatee. They were last seen wearing a dark-coloured t-shirt, camouflage pants, white shoes, a black and white bucket hat with a white flower pattern, and a light brown backpack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information, dashcam footage or security video is being asked to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are asking for the public\u2019s help in finding a suspect wanted in an assault and threatening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-811228","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\/811228","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=811228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}