Man Who Police Say Faked Abduction In Trouble With The Law Again
Posted August 31, 2009 8:25 pm.
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It’s been a hell of a summer for Furqan Muhammad-Haroon.
First he was charged with theft after allegedly stealing computer equipment from IBM, his former employer. Then, police contend he faked his own gunpoint abduction. For that he was hit with Mischief charges before being released on $20,000 bail last Thursday. And now the U of T Engineering student is facing even more charges stemming from another suspected theft.
Police allege he was caught on tape stealing laptop computers and monitors from the offices of a software company at Front and University in 2007/08.
“He has been arrested and charged,” confirms Cost. Tony Vella.
At first no one recognized the suspect in the surveillance video, but that changed last week when someone who saw media coverage of Muhammad-Haroon’s disappearance thought he resembled the person in the video.
Investigators later determined that Muhammad-Haroon worked in the building at the time of the break-ins and has picked up on Monday morning.
