Charges have been stayed towards one of many suspects within the alleged abduction and disappearance of Elnaz Hajtamiri.
On Tuesday, the Crown stayed all charges towards Krystal P. Lawrence, 31, of Brampton.
Lawrence was charged in early 2023 when Ontario Provincial Police launched photos of suspects believed to have been concerned within the kidnapping of then 37-year-old Richmond Hill woman Elnaz Hajtamiri from a house in Wasaga Seashore on January 12, 2022.
Launched from custody with strict situations that included a curfew, Lawrence made a number of digital courtroom appearances within the 12 months following Hajtamiri’s disappearance.
Charges towards one other woman, Dominique Ewan, additionally accused in reference to the alleged kidnapping, had been stayed in October. Together with kidnapping, Ewan was initially additionally charged with fraud and possession of property obtained by crime.
In response to Ontario police, the alleged mastermind within the case, Mohamad Lilo, who’s Hajtamiri’s former boyfriend, has been charged with first-degree homicide and kidnapping.
Police say she is presumed lifeless after there was no hint of her since she went lacking greater than two years in the past.
Police additionally proceed their seek for one other suspect, Deshawn Davis of Toronto, in reference to the alleged kidnapping.
A number of different males stay earlier than the courts in relation to a different alleged abduction try on Hajtamiri in an underground parking storage in Richmond Hill in December 2021, weeks earlier than she disappeared.
Police say that try finally prompted her to enter hiding with family members in Wasaga Seashore, the place they are saying she was forcibly dragged from the house and put right into a white Lexus SUV. It will be the final time Hajtamiri was seen by family members.
