A Mississauga man was arrested in Texas and is facing charges in connection to a 2021 attack on Elnaz Hajtamiri, a Mississauga woman who has been missing since 2022.

The 25-year old man faces charges of aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence and is in custody in the York Region, York police said in a news release on Friday.

The U.S. Marshals Service arrested the accused in Texas in August before he was transported back to Canada and charged, according to the release.

The man is alleged to be involved in an attack on Hajtamiri that happened weeks before she was kidnapped, police said Friday.

They say Hajtamiri was attacked in December 2021 and hit with a frying pan in an underground parking garage in Richmond Hill. She was taken to the hospital with non-life-t

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