{"id":880449,"date":"2026-09-02T07:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/880449\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:32:10","slug":"brampton-stranger-sexual-assaults-suspect-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/880449\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton stranger sexual assaults: suspect wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man is wanted after a woman and a teenage girl were sexually assaulted in Brampton on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peelpolice.ca\/news-feed\/posts\/peel-police-believe-same-suspect-responsible-for-reported-brampton-sexual-assaults-remind-residents-to-stay-aware-of-their-surroundings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.peelpolice.ca\/news-feed\/posts\/peel-police-believe-same-suspect-responsible-for-reported-brampton-sexual-assaults-remind-residents-to-stay-aware-of-their-surroundings\/\">Peel Regional Police said<\/a> the first incident happened around noon while a woman in her 20s was shopping at Bramalea City Centre, located near Dixie Road and Clark Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect approached the woman from behind and allegedly grabbed her butt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the woman pushed the suspect away and fled. She later contacted police to report the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shortly before 2 p.m., at Bramalea Terminal, which is just east of the mall, a girl under 18 years old was waiting for a bus when the same suspect approached her and engaged her in a conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the suspect asked personal questions and then sat beside the girl on a bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhen the victim attempted to leave, the suspect allegedly grabbed her breast and then grabbed her buttocks from behind,\u201d police allege.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She left the terminal and later called police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release on Tuesday, police released images of the suspect described as a Black man in his mid-30s to 40s, between five-foot-eight and five-foot-10 with a medium to heavy build, short black hair, and a patchy black facial hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cInvestigators continue to investigate and remind residents to stay aware of their surroundings, especially when alone,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is wanted after a woman and a teenage girl were sexually assaulted in Brampton on Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[712,51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-880449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-apple-news","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880449","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=880449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}