{"id":924689,"date":"2026-10-08T01:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/924689\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T01:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:20:12","slug":"toronto-distraction-theft-2-suspects-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/924689\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto distraction theft: 2 suspects wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/67067\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/67067\/\">have released images<\/a> of two people accused of stealing an elderly victim\u2019s gold jewelry during a distraction theft in North York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the incident happened on May 29 in the area of Dufferin Street and Finch Avenue West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A female suspect seated in the backseat of a white car waved the victim over to her vehicle, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When the victim came, the suspect allegedly placed fake jewelry around the victim\u2019s neck before removing their gold necklace and charm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said she and a male suspect driving the car then fled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release on Wednesday, investigators identified the suspects as 20-year-old Elena Costantin and 26-year-old Ion Miclescu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They are both wanted for theft under $5,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information about their whereabouts is being asked to contact police or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police have released images of two people accused of stealing an elderly victim\u2019s gold jewelry during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-924689","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\/924689","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=924689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}