{"id":853860,"date":"2026-08-11T06:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853860\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T06:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:38:11","slug":"toronto-man-who-is-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-victim-at-gunpoint-is-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853860\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto man who is accused of sexually assaulting victim at gunpoint is arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old man from Toronto who is accused of sexually assaulting a victim at gunpoint and recording the alleged crime has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>In an update shared on Monday, Toronto police said Devon Plooard was taken into custody on Aug. 10, and charged with several offences, including sexual assault, pointing a firearm and voyeurism.<\/p>\n<p>The assault was reported on Aug. 8 in the Gerrard Street East and Coxwell Avenue area and allegedly happened months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege that Plooard was with the victim in May 2026 and sexually assaulted them after producing a firearm and pointing it at them.<\/p>\n<p>The victim later realized that Plooard recorded the sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>He was scheduled to appear in court at the Toronto Regional Bail Centre on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old man from Toronto who is accused of sexually assaulting a victim at gunpoint and recording the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-853860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853860","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=853860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}