Guelph Police make arrest in 2016 investigation

In this Feb. 27, 2013 photo illustration, hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. This week, Yahoo and Microsoft offered up some alternatives to traditional online passwords: Yahoo says it can text temporary passwords to users' phones each time they want to sign into their Yahoo accounts. Microsoft says it is building facial-recognition and fingerprint-identification technology into Windows 10. (AP/Damian Dovarganes, File)

A Brampton man has been arrested by the Guelph Police Service in relation to an investigation which began in 2016.

According to police, in September of that year, a Guelph woman contacted them after she said intimate images had been posted online without her consent.

“She had sent the images to a man with whom she had an online relationship, but had never met in person,” police said in a media release. “She learned the photos had been published after other males started contacting her. The complainant did not wish to proceed with charges at that time, however in early 2018 contacted police again after learning the images had once again been shared.”

Police did not locate the suspect at the time and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

On Monday, he was arrested by Canadian Border Service Agency officers after flying into Pearson Airport.

A 29-year-old man has been charged with publishing intimate images without consent.