{"id":171705,"date":"2025-09-26T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/171705\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:39:10","slug":"suspect-posed-as-rideshare-driver-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/171705\/","title":{"rendered":"suspect posed as rideshare driver, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 30-year-old man is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman after posing as a rideshare driver in Vaughan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">York Regional Police said a woman was waiting for a ride in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/g4Mu2bNEe4CkB38AA\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/g4Mu2bNEe4CkB38AA\">Major Mackenzie Drive West and Jane Street<\/a> shortly after 3 a.m. on Monday when a man approached her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He allegedly told the woman during their conversation that he was a rideshare driver and then offered to drive her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAfter they entered his vehicle, he drove to a parking lot on Major Mackenzie Drive West where he stopped and sexually assaulted her,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yrp.ca\/en\/Modules\/News\/index.aspx?newsId=50c2f018-348b-4942-a257-9486d1d72ef2\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.yrp.ca\/en\/Modules\/News\/index.aspx?newsId=50c2f018-348b-4942-a257-9486d1d72ef2\">police allege.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shortly after, the man allegedly threatened her, forced her out of the vehicle and drove away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After assisting the victim, officers who responded to her call searched the area and located the suspect vehicle as well as the driver, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was arrested without incident and in a news release on Friday, police identified him as 30-year-old Mohammad Shaqueel Zolmay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has been charged with kidnapping, sexual assault and uttering threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have also released his photo, as they believe there are other victims who have not come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They are asking any other victims or anyone with information to contact investigators at 1-866-876-5423 ext. 7071 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p>Correction<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This article has been updated from a previous version that misstated the suspect&#8217;s age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 30-year-old man is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman after posing as a rideshare driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-171705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}