{"id":916786,"date":"2026-10-01T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916786\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:44:11","slug":"brampton-attempted-murder-suspect-arrested-in-manitoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916786\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton attempted murder suspect arrested in Manitoba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A suspect wanted for more than three years on a Canada-wide warrant for an attempted murder in Brampton, Ont., has now been arrested, Peel Regional Police say. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release issued Friday, police said 36-year-old Nakeem Jamar Johnson was arrested on Sept. 22 in Cross Lake, Man., and has been transported back to Peel Region. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Johnson, police said, was wanted in connection with a shooting in the area of Queen Street East and Rutherford Road in Brampton on Feb. 3, 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said a male victim was found in the area suffering from serious, but non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Search warrants were subsequently executed in connection with the case on May 8, 2023, when investigators recovered five firearms, 10 kg of methamphetamine, and a \u201csignificant\u201d quantity of fentanyl and cocaine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Canada-wide warrant was then issued for Johnson\u2019s arrest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has now been charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, possession of a firearm, possession for the purpose of trafficking, possession of a loaded prohibited firearm, and possession of a prohibited device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect wanted for more than three years on a Canada-wide warrant for an attempted murder in Brampton,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[712,51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-916786","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\/916786","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=916786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}