{"id":159608,"date":"2025-08-19T23:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159608\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T23:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:22:12","slug":"ontario-man-faces-charges-after-allegedly-assaulting-home-intruder-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159608\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario man faces charges after allegedly assaulting home intruder: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>An Ontario homeowner is facing assault charges after a violent encounter with an alleged intruder inside his apartment early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to a release issued by Kawartha Lakes Police Service, officers were called to a residence on Kent Street in Lindsay at around 3:20 a.m. on Aug. 18, following reports of an altercation between two men.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the resident woke up to find another man inside his home.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>A physical struggle broke out, leaving the alleged intruder with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Ross Memorial Hospital before being airlifted to a Toronto trauma center.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old homeowner has been charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>He was released from custody with a future court date.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, police say the 41-year-old alleged intruder was already wanted for unrelated offences.<\/p>\n<p>He now faces additional charges, including break and enter, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, mischief under $5,000 and failing to comply with probation.<\/p>\n<p>He will remain in custody pending a bail hearing once released from hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police say there is no ongoing threat to public safety.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size An Ontario homeowner is facing assault charges after a violent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,4219,8337,50,92509],"class_list":{"0":"post-159608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-home-invasion","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-opp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115058006085847289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}