{"id":942423,"date":"2026-10-22T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942423\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:28:09","slug":"man-extorted-sister-in-7m-phone-theft-from-bell-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942423\/","title":{"rendered":"Man extorted sister in $7M phone theft from Bell, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Ottawa police say they&#8217;ve arrested and charged a 45-year-old man following an investigation into the alleged theft of thousands of mobile phones worth $7 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">On Thursday, police said the man threatened, harassed and extorted his sister, who was a Bell Canada employee. She has since died, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The man&#8217;s sister obtained the phones from the company &#8220;through fraudulent means&#8221; and the man then sold them, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Police allege the thefts took place between June 2022 and September 2025, and that the losses in this case exceed $7 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Police said Bell initiated the complaint that led to the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The man has been charged with theft over $5,000, fraud over $5,000, uttering threats of death or bodily harm, extortion and other charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Bell declined to comment on the case as it is before the courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-942423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942423","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=942423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}