{"id":916068,"date":"2026-10-01T02:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916068\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:56:09","slug":"toronto-parking-officer-assaulted-suspect-facing-several-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916068\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto parking officer assaulted: Suspect facing several charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 47-year-old man is facing several charges after allegedly assaulting a Toronto Parking Enforcement Officer (PEO) in the city\u2019s Fashion District on Tuesday night, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident happened near Wellington Street West and Portland Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say they were called to that area just before 8:30 p.m. for reports of a peace officer who had been assaulted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say a PEO had just completed serving a parking ticket on a vehicle when the driver approached them and assaulted the officer \u201cnumerous times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect fled the scene, police say, but was arrested a short time later at another location nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The officer was not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rohan Hutchinson, 47, of Toronto, has been charged with four counts of assault peace officer. The charges have not been tested in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was scheduled to appear in bail court on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information is asked to contact Toronto police at 416-808-6600 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 47-year-old man is facing several charges after allegedly assaulting a Toronto Parking Enforcement Officer (PEO) in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-916068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916068","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=916068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}