{"id":483840,"date":"2026-02-18T21:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483840\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:33:08","slug":"vaughan-realtor-facing-sexual-assault-indecent-act-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483840\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaughan realtor facing sexual assault, indecent act charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A real estate agent from York Region is facing charges after allegedly sexually assaulting a client and committing an indecent act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yrp.ca\/en\/Modules\/News\/index.aspx?newsId=2fa0818c-0294-4e11-9299-cfcc8698adbc\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.yrp.ca\/en\/Modules\/News\/index.aspx?newsId=2fa0818c-0294-4e11-9299-cfcc8698adbc\">York Regional Police<\/a> say on Feb. 9, a female contacted a realtor from a social media sales platform about a rental listing. The following day police say the realtor asked her to visit the listed property, however that was not possible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Instead, they agreed to meet at her home to discuss the listing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There, the realtor allegedly sexually assaulted her and committed an indecent act before leaving her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the victim was not physically injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Feb. 16, Farzad Farhoodinejad, 44, of Vaughan, was arrested and charged with sexual assault and indecent act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators have released his photo as they believe there may be more victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information is asked to contact the #4 District Criminal Investigations Bureau at 1-866-876-5423, ext. 7441, or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A real estate agent from York Region is facing charges after allegedly sexually assaulting a client and committing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-483840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483840","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=483840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}