{"id":874155,"date":"2026-08-28T05:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874155\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T05:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:10:12","slug":"police-looking-for-possible-victims-of-underwear-theft-in-ottawa-gatineau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/874155\/","title":{"rendered":"Police looking for possible victims of underwear theft in Ottawa, Gatineau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Police are looking to speak with residents of the Gatineau, Que. and Ottawa areas who may have had underwear stolen from their homes over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>Officers carried out a search warrant on Nov. 20, at a residence in the Manoir des Trembles area in connection with two burglary cases, the Gatineau City Police Service said in a news release Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>During this operation, a Gatineau resident was arrested. He was remanded in custody and later appeared before the Court of Qu\u00e9bec, police said.  <\/p>\n<p>The investigation continued following\u00a0his court appearance, resulting in further charges relating to similar offences being authorized. <\/p>\n<p>The accused, 52, offered\u00a0his services as a \u201chandyman\u201d for various types of work in\u00a0homes, mainly those of women, police said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After\u00a0he\u00a0had gained access to the victim&#8217;s\u00a0homes, the victims reported finding underwear that did not belong to them and discovering that some of their own underwear was missing,&#8221; the news release reads. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators said they believe the man may\u00a0have victimized other people in the Manoir des Trembles neighbourhood, as well as elsewhere in Gatineau and Ottawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-874155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874155","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=874155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}