Police had found a blood-stained carpet in the boot of the car, which was linked to the alleged kidnappers and an abandoned property where it is believed Baghsarian was held hostage.<\/p>\n
In the days after the kidnapping, video circulating in Sydney’s underworld purported to show the elderly man had been seriously injured.<\/p>\n
Police repeatedly appealed to the kidnappers for the man’s safe return, saying he suffered from health issues and needed daily medication.<\/p>\n
“They were intending to take somebody, but have taken the wrong person,” Det Acting Supt Andrew Marks told reporters a few days after the kidnapping.<\/p>\n
“The family are in distress. All they want is their father to be returned, their grandfather to be returned.”<\/p>\n
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns had suggested the kidnappers could “drop Mr Baghsarian off at a shopping centre or an emergency department or even a nursing home”.<\/p>\n
Cases of mistaken identity have become more common in Sydney’s underworld, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, as large organised crime networks increasingly subcontract crimes.<\/p>\n
Last year, a 23-year-old plumber was shot dead in his driveway in Condell Park in what police believe was also a case of mistaken identity.<\/p>\n
“The fact that these offenders \u2013 these kidnappers \u2013 have got it so wrong is concerning,” Marks said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police had found a blood-stained carpet in the boot of the car, which was linked to the alleged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-442417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}