{"id":932544,"date":"2026-10-14T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932544\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:24:19","slug":"brampton-woman-charged-in-mercedes-financing-fraud-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932544\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton Woman Charged in Mercedes Financing Fraud Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"938\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Durham_regional_police(1).jpg\" alt=\"Brampton Woman Charged in Mercedes Financing Fraud Investigation \" class=\"mb-6 h-auto w-full image-video-aspect rounded-lg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A 39-year-old Brampton woman has been charged after allegedly using another person\u2019s identity to obtain financing for a 2027 Mercedes SUV.<\/p>\n<p>Durham Regional Police say the suspect submitted an online vehicle purchase application on Sept. 30, 2026, using the victim\u2019s identification documents, including a Canadian passport displaying the suspect\u2019s photograph.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was notified before the vehicle was released and reported the suspected identity fraud to police and the dealership.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 8, Skylar Porter was arrested without incident when she attended the dealership to complete the transaction and take possession of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Porter faces five charges, including fraud over $5,000, uttering a forged document, personation, possession of an identity document and possession of cocaine. She was released on an undertaking.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Durham Regional Police or Durham Regional Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 39-year-old Brampton woman has been charged after allegedly using another person\u2019s identity to obtain financing for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-932544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932544","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=932544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}