{"id":947376,"date":"2026-10-26T21:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947376\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T21:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:40:20","slug":"vancouver-mans-odd-outfit-catches-police-eye-ends-in-46-month-sentence-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947376\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver man\u2019s odd outfit catches police eye, ends in 46-month sentence | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793050820_486_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Vancouver Police Department (VPD) patch is seen in Ottawa, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Spencer Colby<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 26, 2026 | 1:32 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 A man who was overdressed for August temperatures tipped off Vancouver officers to something suspicious and has led to a conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Police say in a release that an officer noticed the man in the city\u2019s downtown on Aug. 16, 2024, because he was \u201cwearing clothing inconsistent with the hot weather\u201d and was repeatedly checking his surrounding.<\/p>\n<p>One of the officers followed the man on foot and as the suspect turned a corner out of the view, the pursuing officer heard gunshots. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect was located and challenged at gunpoint until additional officers arrived to help to bring him into custody. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Vancouver Police Department (VPD) patch is seen in Ottawa, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Spencer Colby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,55],"class_list":["post-947376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947376","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=947376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}