{"id":38484,"date":"2019-06-19T09:49:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=38484"},"modified":"2019-06-19T09:49:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:49:33","slug":"siu-called-in-after-man-allegedly-steals-taxi-barricades-himself-in-east-york-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/local\/gta\/siu-called-in-after-man-allegedly-steals-taxi-barricades-himself-in-east-york-home\/","title":{"rendered":"SIU called in after man allegedly steals taxi, barricades himself in East York home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario&#8217;s police watchdog is investigating after a man allegedly stole a taxi before barricading himself in a stranger&#8217;s home in East York on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police were initially called to the area of Roblin Avenue and Plains road around 10:30 p.m. for a report of a stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the stolen taxi then smashed into another vehicle in the Pape Avenue and O&#8217;Connor Drive area before continuing on.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, the man then got out of the taxi and &#8220;entered a home,&#8221; where he allegedly threatened a person inside,\u00a0according to Toronto police.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency Task Force (ETF) officers were present at the scene for a time.<\/p>\n<p>They eventually got into the residence and arrested the man. He was then taken to hospital, though police did not say if he was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Investigations Unit has invoked its mandate and will be probing the interaction between police and the man.<\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-38485\"><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">DR<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario&#8217;s police watchdog is investigating after a man allegedly stole a taxi before barricading himself in a stranger&#8217;s home in East York on Tuesday night. Toronto police were initially called &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":38485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3538],"tags":[4041,7584,5558],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TAXI.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}