{"id":622296,"date":"2026-04-21T22:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622296\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:45:10","slug":"fourth-man-charged-over-alleged-kidnapping-murder-of-sydney-grandfather-chris-baghsarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622296\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth man charged over alleged kidnapping murder of Sydney grandfather Chris Baghsarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A fourth man has been charged in relation to the alleged kidnapping and murder of a Sydney grandfather.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Chris Baghsarian\u00a0was taken from his North Ryde home in a case of mistaken identity just after 5am on February 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 85-year-old&#8217;s abduction triggered an 11-day search, with his remains later found near a golf course in Pitt Town in the city&#8217;s north-west.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An aerial image showing police cars and officers in bushland.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/114e0649e55f16b75e18a1d820d84331.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Chris Baghsarian&#8217;s remains were found in north-west Sydney following an 11-day search. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It is understood his captors&#8217; intended target was a relative of Sydney businessman Dimitri Stepanyan, who also lived nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On Tuesday morning, detectives arrested a fourth man \u2014 aged 19 \u2014 at Mount Druitt Police Station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was charged with murder and take or detain in company with intent to ransom occasioning actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Three other men remain before the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was refused bail and is due to appear in Mount Druitt Local Court today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fourth man has been charged in relation to the alleged kidnapping and murder of a Sydney grandfather.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,2025,243538,2973,48,56135,2968,44,243536,38292,4277,301608,670],"class_list":["post-622296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charges","tag-chris-baghsarian","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-kidnapping","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-north-ryde","tag-north-sydney","tag-nsw-police","tag-pitt-town","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}