Halifax police say disappearance of woman suspicious after car found in Ontario

HALIFAX – Halifax police are now treating the disappearance of a 26-year-old woman as suspicious after her car was found in Ontario.

Loretta Saunders was reported missing by her family on Monday after she was last seen in the Cowie Hill Road area of Halifax last Thursday.

Investigators say her car was discovered Tuesday night in Harrow, Ont., south of Windsor.

A 25-year-old man and 28-year-old woman were arrested by the Ontario Provincial Police on charges of possession of a stolen vehicle and for outstanding warrants.

Police are asking anyone who may have seen Saunders or her car, a Toyota Celica with a Newfoundland and Labrador licence plate of HCP 543, to come forward.

Saunders is an Inuk woman, five-foot-seven and about 120 pounds with light brown straight hair.