An arrest warrant has been issued for a 40-year-old Toronto man who allegedly stole a Sea-Doo in Sarnia, Ont. and illegally crossed into the United States.<\/p>\n
Sarnia Police Service said on Aug. 9, at around 9:40 p.m., they were called for a report of a missing person related to a personal watercraft rental. <\/p>\n
They said a male, identified as Romeo Bajram, rented a Sea-Doo with cash at 6:45 p.m. , but failed to return as expected an hour later. <\/p>\n
Investigators say Bajram left the dock at 6:40 pm, heading south on the St. Clair River, which is an international border between the U.S. and Canada. <\/p>\n
When he failed to return at 7:45 p.m., the rental facility phoned Bajram, police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe apologized for being late, provided questionable excuses, but indicated he was 10 minutes away. At 8:20 pm, another placed call was answered and again he said he would be returning shortly. Multiple additional calls were made (no answer) until police were contacted at 9:40 p.m.,\u201d they said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Sarnia police then alerted surrounding police agencies, requesting notification if Bajram or the Sea-Doo were found.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time officers suspected possible theft or intentional disappearance due to forfeited deposit and evasive behavior,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
Sarnia police said they notified the Canadian Coast Guard, Sarnia Fire, and Point Edward Fire, which were deployed to conduct a marine search of the St. Clair River. Their focus, police said, was on areas south of the marina toward Stag Island and north into Lake Huron. <\/p>\n
However, the search of these waterways on the Canadian side was unsuccessful, prompting Sarnia police to notify Canada Border Services Agency and Toronto police, who did a residence check.<\/p>\n
Shortly after midnight on Aug. 10, the U.S. Coast Guard advised they had located the Sea-Doo on the American shore south of Sarnia. Along with the vessel,police said they found a shirt that Bajram was last seen wearing, a life jacket, and the vehicle\u2019skeys.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is believed that Bajram was successful in conducting an illegal border crossing. U.S. Customs and Immigration were notified and are investigating this incident,\u201d said Sarnia police. <\/p>\n
Bajram, 40, of Toronto, is wanted for theft of a motor vehicle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An arrest warrant has been issued for a 40-year-old Toronto man who allegedly stole a Sea-Doo in Sarnia,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4717,2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-139293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115015047358930203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}