{"id":834008,"date":"2026-07-29T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834008\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:23:18","slug":"hamilton-police-human-trafficking-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834008\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton police human trafficking investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shemar Walters and Ethan Gangasingh have been arrested after they allegedly trafficked youth in both Hamilton and Toronto. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say two suspects are facing numerous charges after they allegedly trafficked young victims in Hamilton and Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release issued Wednesday, Hamilton Police Service said their investigation began in May after receiving information about \u201cmultiple youths\u201d being trafficked in the two cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s alleged that between March and June of this year, 27-year-old Toronto resident Shemar Walters trafficked the victims, advertised their sexual services online, and collected the proceeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another suspect, 20-year-old Brampton resident Ethan Gangasingh, is alleged to have assisted Walters in procuring the victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHamilton Police are releasing images of both accused as investigators believe there may be additional survivors who have not yet come forward,\u201d police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both suspects are charged with two counts each of procuring for sexual services under 18, possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, and proceeds of crime under $5,000, among several other offences. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Walters is separately charged with two counts of trafficking in persons under the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are asking anyone with further information about the investigation to contact them at 905-546-3828 or Crime Stoppers anonymously. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shemar Walters and Ethan Gangasingh have been arrested after they allegedly trafficked youth in both Hamilton and Toronto.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-834008","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\/834008","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=834008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}