Sexual Assault Alert, Parliament Street and Dundas Streeet East area, Update, Man, 40, arrested, facing six charges

Sexual Assault Alert, Parliament Street and Dundas Streeet East area, Update, Man, 40, arrested, facing six charges

Monday, December 18, 2017 - 11:15 AM
51 Division:  416-808-7474

The Toronto Police Service would like to inform the public of an arrest in a Sexual Assault Investigation.

It is alleged that: 

- in the early morning hours of Saturday, December 16, 2017, a girl, 17, and a woman, 18, met the male suspects at a nightclub in the King Street West and Spadina Avenue area

See previous release.

On Sunday, December 17, 2017, at 3:30 p.m., Banh La, 40, of Toronto, was arrested. He is charged with:

1) three counts of Sexual Assault 
2) two counts of Forcible Confinement
3) Fail to Comply with Probation

He was scheduled to appear in court at College Park on Monday, December 18, 2017, 10 a.m., room 501.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-7474, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637). Download the free Crime Stoppers Mobile App on iTunes, Google Play or Blackberry App World.


A sexual assault is any form of unwanted sexual contact. It includes, but is not limited to, kissing, grabbing, oral sex and penetration. To learn more about sexual assault, including how to report a sexual assault, please visit our Sex Crimes website.

For more news, visit TPSnews.ca.

Constable David Hopkinson, Corporate Communications, for Detective Dan Maisonneuve, Sex Crimes