5 | O akville B eaver | T hursday,A pril 21,2022 insidehalton.com COME & JOIN US AT OUR OPEN HOUSES! Immersion students are welcome to apply! Oakville | Sainte-Marie (JK to Grade 6) Wednesday, April 27 at 10 a.m. - Thursday, May 5 at 5 p.m. Oakville | Sainte-Trinité (Grades 7 to 12) Personalized visits MonEcoleSecondaire.ca Register your child for September 2022! Visit: CscMonAvenir.ca Founded in 1991 Peter Watson MBA, CFP®, R.F.P., CIM®, FCSI Jennifer Watson MBA, CFP®, CIM® Accepting new clients. Please visit www.watsoninvestments.com to book a free consultation. Offering safe virtual meetings and e-signatures for new client onboarding. "Our clients enjoy talking about their retirement dreams and we enjoy helping them get there." Peter & Jennifer info@watsoninvestments.com (905) 842 -2100 A young Oakville woman has been charged with second-degree murder in re- lation to the death of a Toronto man. The body of Daniel Hoffman, 31, was lo- cated shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13 at an address near Harbour and York streets in downtown Toronto, police said. He is Toronto's 21st homicide victim of 2022. With the help of the Niagara Regional Police Service, three people have been ar- rested in this homicide investigation, To- ronto Police said Friday. Oakville resident Adriana Desario, 20, Toronto resident Niki Kirimi, 18, and To- ronto resident Dawson Aguilera Jimenez, 22, have each been charged with second- degree murder. The charges have not been proven in court. At press time, police had said little about the alleged relationship between the victim and the suspects. Members of Toronto police's homicide squad are urging anyone with information to contact them at 416-808-7400, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477 (TIPS) or 222tips.com. LOCAL WOMAN CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER LOUIE ROSELLA lrosella@metroland.com CRIME Adriana Desario has been charged with second-degree murder. Toronto Police Service photo A 34-year-old Mississauga man is facing fraud-related charges in connection with an alleged romance scam that reportedly swin- dled multiple victims across Canada, in- cluding one in Oakville. The Halton Police Regional Fraud Unit began an investigation into an alleged on- line dating scam in January 2019 after an Oakville resident came forward and claimed they had been defrauded of approx- imately $70,000. The lengthy investigation that followed resulted in the identification of several oth- er alleged victims across the country as well as a suspect. Police said contact with the alleged vic- tims would be initiated and maintained through email and text, at which point their trust would be gained and they were con- vinced to transfer funds. In total, the alleged victims reported los- ing $370,000. It's alleged the scam targeted older adults. On March 17, Halton police executed a search warrant at an apartment unit in Mis- sissauga and made one arrest. A 34-year-old Mississauga man has been charged with six counts of fraud over $5,000. He will appear in court at a later date. None of the charges have been proven in court. It's alleged a number of different aliases were used including: • Dante Leonardo • Sean Bruno • Jason Roberto A number of similar profile images were also used to create online dating profiles. Anyone with additional information re- lated to this investigation is asked to contact Halton police at 905-825-4747 ext. 8741 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or haltoncrimestoppers.ca. $70K LOST IN ALLEGED ROMANCE SCAM Online profile images, which Halton police allege are connected to a romance scam. Halton police images