Police have arrested a person as a part of an investigation into a lady’s abduction in Wasaga Seaside, Ont., final month, Ontario Chronicle has discovered.
Montreal resident Mohamad Lilo, 34, was taken into custody on Jan. 21 and charged with legal harassment, in response to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). He was launched on bail on Jan. 25 and is ready to seem nearly in a Collingwood, Ont., court docket on Feb. 22.
Police would not verify who the alleged sufferer within the case is, however a number of sources mentioned it’s 37-year-old Elnaz Hajtamiri.
Hajtamiri, who lives within the Toronto space, has been lacking since she was forcibly taken by three males on the night of Jan. 12 from a house the place she was staying with kin on Trailwood Place in Wasaga Seaside — a preferred vacationer city on the foot of Georgian Bay, about a two-hour drive north of Toronto.
Police have not charged anybody with abducting Hajtamiri at the moment.
Hajtamiri’s household issued an e mail assertion late Wednesday thanking the OPP for its investigation.
Nevertheless, the arrest “does not convey Elnaz any nearer to being introduced residence,” the assertion continued.
Mohamad Lilo, 34, was arrested on Jan. 21 and charged with legal harassment, in response to the Ontario Provincial Police. He was launched on bail 4 days later and is due in court docket later this month. (Mohamad Lilo/Fb)
Sources say Lilo is the previous boyfriend of Hajtamiri, who additionally goes by the final identify Tamiri, and that the 2 broke up final October.
The sources additionally say the alleged legal harassment occurred within the weeks main as much as her disappearance.
As a part of his bail situations, Lilo is prohibited from being in Wasaga Seaside.
Ontario Chronicle has reached out to Lilo however has but to obtain a response.
Hajtamiri injured in December assault, household says
CBC Information beforehand reported that Hajtamiri was attacked on Dec. 21 by two males who jumped her within the parking storage of her Richmond Hill rental constructing. In the course of the assault she was overwhelmed with a frying pan, her cousin instructed Ontario Chronicle, and suffered a head wound requiring 35 to 40 stitches.
York Regional Police confirmed it’s investigating the incident.
CBC Information is just not figuring out the cousin, who lives within the U.S., out of concern for her security.
The identical cousin instructed Ontario Chronicle that Hajtamiri had cause to consider she was being watched on the time after monitoring units had been discovered on a automobile she had been leasing.
Sources this week instructed Ontario Chronicle there was a witness within the automobile with Hajtamiri on the time of the December assault, and that the witness has instructed police one of many attackers recorded the beating on their telephone.
In the meantime, a household spokesperson mentioned Wednesday that Hajtamiri’s household has now employed Tom Klatt, a personal investigator who beforehand labored with the Toronto Police Service. The household has additionally retained former Crown prosecutor Devin Bains to look into the case.
Hajtamiri is described as 5 toes, three inches tall, with a slim construct and shoulder-length black hair.
She was born in Iran, got here to Canada in 2018, and located work within the import-export transport business, in response to a information launch from the household, however she lately left her job to concentrate on constructing a cake-making enterprise.
