{"id":921409,"date":"2026-10-05T11:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921409\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:04:53","slug":"two-charged-after-alleged-fraud-attempt-at-local-car-dealership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921409\/","title":{"rendered":"Two charged after alleged fraud attempt at local car dealership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/opp-quinte-west.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Two charged after alleged fraud attempt at local car dealership\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Two people have been charged after\u00a0an investigation into an alleged fraudulent attempt to obtain a vehicle from a Quinte West dealership.<\/p>\n<p>Quinte West OPP responded to a report from staff at the local dealership regarding a suspicious customer at around 2 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Dealership employees reported concerns that individuals attending the business may have been using fraudulent identification documents in an attempt to acquire a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Officers attended the dealership and initiated an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested two individuals while the alleged transaction was in progress.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the investigation, 38-year-old Justin Gallant of Brampton and 46-year-old Rebecca Foster of Brampton, have each been charged with:<\/p>\n<p>Fraud Over $5,000<br \/>\nUse, Deals, Acts on Forged Document<br \/>\nPersonation with Intent (Identity Fraud)<\/p>\n<p>Both were held for a bail hearing and remain in custody.<\/p>\n<p>They are scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Belleville at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Two people have been charged after\u00a0an investigation into an alleged fraudulent attempt to obtain a vehicle from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[3735,51759,3736,49,48,44,3733,3731,3734,3729,3730,3737,3732],"class_list":["post-921409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-bancroft","tag-brampton","tag-brighton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-pec","tag-picton","tag-prince-edward-county","tag-quinte","tag-quinte-news","tag-quinte-west","tag-trenton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921409","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=921409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}