Aussie granddad kidnapped by mistake: policeIDENTITY CRISIS: Calling for Chris Baghsarian’s release, a police officer said he was ‘a million percent’ confident the kidnappers got the wrong personAFP, SYDNEYAustralian police yesterday appealed for the urgent return of an 85-year-old man kidnapped in what they said was a case of mistaken identity. Police received reports early Friday that octogenarian Chris Baghsarian had been taken from his home by three intruders in Sydney’s North Ryde suburb. “I’m a million percent confident they have the wrong person,” he said. They were intending to take somebody, but have taken the wrong person,” he added. In what he admitted was a “very strange appeal” he urged the kidnappers to release their geriatric prisoner as soon as possible.

Source: Taipei Times February 16, 2026 17:23 UTC