{"id":822470,"date":"2026-07-24T06:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822470\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:09:20","slug":"mississauga-man-charged-in-human-trafficking-investigation-by-toronto-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822470\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississauga Man Charged in Human Trafficking Investigation by Toronto Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"938\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1280-720-Template_BG-final---2026-07-23T121406.143.jpg\" alt=\"Mississauga Man Charged in Human Trafficking Investigation by Toronto Police\" class=\"mb-6 h-auto w-full image-video-aspect rounded-lg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Police have arrested a 36-year-old Mississauga man following a human trafficking investigation that began in June.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release by Toronto police, suspect allegedly used deception, coercion and control to traffic a 32-year-old woman, forced her to take sexualized photos that were distributed online and the suspect allegedly kept the money she earned.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin was arrested on July 22 after investigators executed a search warrant at a Mississauga address. He faces multiple charges, including trafficking in persons, procuring, advertising another person&#8217;s sexual services, assault, uttering death threats, theft over $5,000, and benefiting financially from sexual services.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe there may be additional victims and are urging anyone with information or who may have been affected to contact Toronto Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Police have arrested a 36-year-old Mississauga man following a human trafficking investigation that began in June. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-822470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822470","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=822470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}