{"id":655606,"date":"2026-03-14T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/655606\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:05:13","slug":"toronto-man-charged-with-85-voyeurism-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/655606\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto man charged with 85 voyeurism counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say a man has been arrested after a voyeurism investigation involving hidden cameras placed inside a female washroom at a workplace in Whitby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65422\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65422\/\">news release<\/a>, authorities say officers began the investigation earlier this year on Jan. 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police allege the accused, who worked as a custodian at a manufacturing facility in the Thickson Road and Tricont Avenue area, placed hidden cameras inside a female washroom at the workplace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe accused was found in possession of a media card containing hidden video and audio recordings taken inside the female washroom,\u201d police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Jan. 29, officers executed a search warrant at a residence in the McCowan Road and Finch Avenue East area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police allege officers located numerous additional videos from the hidden cameras during the search.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As a result, 45-year-old Francis Ambas of Toronto, has been charged with 85 counts of voyeurism and possession of a schedule one substance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was scheduled to appear at the Toronto Regional Bail Centre, on Jan. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators believe there may be additional victims who used the female washroom between April 4, 2022, and Jan. 29, 2026, and may have been recorded without their knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police say a man has been arrested after a voyeurism investigation involving hidden cameras placed inside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":655607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4717,2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-655606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116228858113538267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655606","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=655606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}