{"id":934429,"date":"2026-10-15T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934429\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:02:11","slug":"man-charged-after-toronto-election-signs-stolen-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934429\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after Toronto election signs stolen: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A Toronto man is accused of stealing election signs around the Islington Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard West area. <\/p>\n<p>Police allege a man was in the area between Oct. 1 and Oct 11 and was seen removing and damaging election signs. He was also allegedly spotted throwing the signs in the dumpsters.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say that several hundred election signs were reported to have been removed.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say the investigators were able to identify the suspect who surrendered himself to police on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>As a result,  Eric Sullivan, 35, of Toronto, was arrested and charged with theft under $5000 and mischief under $5000.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792101731_813_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0A Toronto man is accused of stealing election signs around the Islington Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-934429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934429","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=934429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}