{"id":849979,"date":"2026-08-08T00:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849979\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:08:09","slug":"toronto-boy-16-accused-of-pointing-gun-at-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849979\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto boy, 16, accused of pointing gun at police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0August 07, 2026 at 4:34PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0August 07, 2026 at 3:49PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>Police say a loaded gun was pointed at officers during the arrest of a 16-year-old suspect wanted since July in connection with a firearms investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 16-year-old boy is accused of pointing a loaded gun at Toronto police officers during his arrest on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said members of the 31 Division Major Crime Unit attended the area of Jane Street and Finch Avenue West to arrest the boy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was wanted in connection with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2026\/07\/17\/man-charged-with-firearm-offences-after-police-pursuit-in-north-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2026\/07\/17\/man-charged-with-firearm-offences-after-police-pursuit-in-north-york\/\">a police foot pursuit on July 15<\/a> near Driftwood Avenue and Finch Avenue West that injured two officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they found the wanted boy as he exited an elevator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As they tried to arrest him, the boy allegedly aimed a loaded firearm at the officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said officers quickly subdued the boy and took him into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No one was injured in the interaction, according to police. They added that besides the loaded firearm, they also seized a quantity of oxycodone and Canadian currency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 16-year-old is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66643\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66643\/\">facing 14 charges,<\/a> including firearm-related offences. He cannot be named under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The teenager is the second person arrested in the July 15 incident. Police already have a 21-year-old man in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0August 07, 2026 at 4:34PM EDT Published:\u00a0August 07, 2026 at 3:49PM EDT Police say a loaded gun was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-849979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849979","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=849979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}