
RCMP seek 2 men who allegedly behaved suspiciously near Rogers Centre in August
TORONTO – RCMP are seeking help in identifying two men they allege behaved suspiciously near the Rogers Centre nearly three months ago but will not disclose what it is the pair was reportedly doing.
Supt. Lise Crouch said a passerby told private security about seeing the men on the John Street Bridge near the stadium in the afternoon of Aug. 31. The incident was then reported to the Mounties’ national critical infrastructure team.
Photos of two men walking, one of them carrying a backpack, have been released. Both are described as between 22 and 30 years old, with a medium build and brown skin.
Crouch denied a suggestion that the two may have been reported due to the colour of their skin.
“It has nothing to do with brown skin,” she said. “It has everything to do with what they were observed to be doing by the complainant.”
That information will not be released, however, until officers speak to the pair, she said.
There is “no imminent threat to public safety,” she said.
Then-prime minister Stephen Harper was spotted at the stadium during the Blue Jays’ practice that day but Crouch said that did not influence the response to the incident.
She says there were six reports of suspicious incidents in the area over the course of that week and all but this one have been resolved and found not to be criminal.
Investigators don’t believe the incidents are linked.
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