Samir Abdelgadir gave a statement to police when he was arrested in May 2020 saying that he had never driven a black Chevy Tahoe nor a White Mercedes SUV and was out of the province at the time a 14-year-old North York boy was abducted on the morning of March 4, 2020.
At the closing arguments of Abdelgadir’s kidnapping trial, assistant Crown attorney Erin Pancer told Superior Court Justice Sandra Nishikawa that Abdelgadir was lying.
Pancer told the judge that Abdelgadir was the lone person seen leaving a home near the QEW and Hurontario Street around 7:20 a.m. that day, captured by a covert camera that was placed there by the OPP doing surveillance in an unrelated investigation.
Pancer submits that Abdelgadir who lived in the home with his mother got into the Tahoe and drove off, rendezvousing with a white Mercedes SUV and a black Jeep Wrangler before the three vehicles drove toward 345 Driftwood Avenue, …