4 arrested after bottles thrown from 35th floor balcony of downtown condo
Posted February 21, 2021 3:29 pm.
Last Updated February 21, 2021 11:16 pm.
Four people have been arrested after bottles of alcohol were thrown from a 35th floor balcony in downtown Toronto to the roadway below.
Police were called to the intersection of Lake Shore Boulevard and York Street just after 2:30 p.m. for reports partiers were throwing liquor bottles off the balcony of a short-term rental unit. Upon arriving police witnessed bottles landing on York Street, “narrowly missing and endangering officers on the ground,” according to a tweet from interim police chief James Ramer.
Police later entered a condo on the 35th floor and found “multiple people” in the unit who were gathering illegally. Seven people were charged with failing to comply with the province’s emergency orders while three men from Toronto and one from Hamilton were charged with a number of offences including common nuisance, mischief endangering life, assaulting a police officer with a weapon and drug possession.
Santiago Marquez, 22, Diego Caro Osorio, 23, Jeison Torres, 37 – all of Toronto – and Giraldo Angel, 22, of Hamilton are scheduled to appear in court Monday morning.
No injuries were reported and the area was reopened to pedestrian traffic approximately an hour after the incident.
