{"id":828927,"date":"2026-07-27T09:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828927\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:37:23","slug":"toronto-police-share-new-photos-of-suspects-wanted-in-distraction-theft-of-elderly-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828927\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police share new photos of suspects wanted in distraction theft of elderly victim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto police released security camera footage showing a suspect squirting ketchup on the victim as part of a distraction theft. <\/p>\n

Police are sharing new photos of the suspects wanted in connection with a distraction theft in Scarborough<\/a> that targeted an elderly victim in April.<\/p>\n

It happened at a bank in the area of Eglinton Avenue East and Pharmacy Avenue<\/a> on the afternoon of April 15, at around 2:20 p.m.<\/p>\n

Toronto police said<\/a> a man and a woman followed an elderly victim into the bank, saw the senior withdraw money, and then followed him out of the establishment. <\/p>\n

The pair were captured on surveillance footage following the victim out of the bank. <\/p>\n

Police released video of the incident in May. In the footage, a male suspect is seen squirting ketchup on the victim\u2019s back before walking away.<\/p>\n

Toronto police said a woman approached the victim and offered to help clean the back of his jacket, but as the senior was being helped, the pair allegedly stole his money.<\/p>\n

The suspects fled the scene.<\/p>\n

Investigators obtained new photos of the suspects and released them to the public on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Police describe the man as having a heavy build and a short beard. They said he was last seen wearing glasses, a black jacket, black pants and light-coloured shoes.<\/p>\n

Officials describe the woman as having a slim build and dark hair tied up in a ponytail. Police say she was wearing a light-coloured coat, a scarf and white shoes, and was carrying a dark knapsack.<\/p>\n

Investigators are asking anyone with information to contact them or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n

With files from CP24\u2019s Bryann Aguilar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police released security camera footage showing a suspect squirting ketchup on the victim as part of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-828927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828927","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=828927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}