Police are searching for a man who was allegedly seen loitering with a firearm in North York on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Toronto police<\/a> said they were called to the area of Yonge Street and Empress Avenue<\/a> just before 1:10 p.m. for reports of a suspicious incident.<\/p>\n According to police, a man was seen \u201caccessing\u201d a gun from inside his jacket before putting the firearm into a backpack and fleeing the area by bicycle. <\/p>\n Police described the man as being between 25 and 40 years old, who was seen wearing a black balaclava with a white Nike symbol above the left eye and all black clothes at the time. They add he was also carrying a black backpack.<\/p>\n Toronto police urge the public to not to approach him if spotted, and to call them immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a man who was allegedly seen loitering with a firearm in North York on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-826156","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\/826156","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=826156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}