{"id":876031,"date":"2026-08-29T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876031\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:06:10","slug":"dozens-of-charges-for-man-accused-of-retail-theft-across-ontario-including-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876031\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of charges for man accused of retail theft across Ontario, including Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/peel-theft-Anthony-Orlando-Monteith-aug-29-2026.jpg\" title=\"Dozens of charges for man accused of retail theft across Ontario, including Durham\"><img width=\"634\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/peel-theft-Anthony-Orlando-Monteith-aug-29-2026.jpg\" class=\"left wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A multi-jurisdictional retail theft investigation is leading to multiple charges for a man from Mississauga.<\/p>\n<p>In April, police launched Project Bishop, an investigation targeting a man investigators are calling a prolific offender allegedly responsible for numerous thefts from major retailers across parts of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The two month investigation linked him to at least 38 theft-related incidents across Durham, Peel, York, Hamilton, Halton and Niagara regions.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested a 49-year-old man from Mississauga on June 19.<\/p>\n<p>Officers searched two homes in Welland and Mississauga and seized $35,000 worth of stolen merchandise, including clothing, cosmetics and personal accessories.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Orlando Monteith, 49, of Mississauga is charged with 24 counts of theft under $5000 and 14 counts of possession of property obtained by crime.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators continue to look into further offences where they believe Monteith may be a suspect and anticipate further charges.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Peel Regional Police.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mistape.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"mistape-link mistape-logo\"><\/p>\n<p>If you have found a spelling error, please, notify us by selecting that text and pressing Ctrl+Enter.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/archives\/javascript:history.go(-1)\" class=\"button\" onmouseover=\"self.status=document.referrer;return true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Go Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A multi-jurisdictional retail theft investigation is leading to multiple charges for a man from Mississauga. In April, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-876031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876031","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=876031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}