Who is Tieja MacLaughlin?
She is a Canadian Reporter Arrested, Allegedly Threatened To Kill Boyfriend, Hockey Player Jackson Playfair.
Tieja a 25-year-old reporter from Kelowna, British Columbia, has reportedly been in a relationship with Jackson Playfair, a 19-year-old member of the WHL’s Tri-City Americans hockey team, the Tri-City Herald reports. According to the newspaper, MacLaughlan threatened to kill Playfair upon learning that he had begun to date someone else. In a phone conversation last Friday, MacLaughlin told Playfair that she was on her way to Kennewick, Wash., to confront him, according to a police report obtained by the Herald. During the phone call, she told Playfair “he would be dead by the end of the night.”
Playfair disclosed the threats to authorities in Kennewick, who confronted MacLaughlin at a local hotel and informed her that she would be placed under arrest if she had further contact with him. Initially, she promised to return to Canada and cease making threats on Playfair’s life.
Soon after, the Canadian news reporter reportedly sent text messages to Playfair, asking him to meet her at the Kennewick hotel. Police told Playfair to pretend to agree to the meeting, and then dispatched officers to arrest her on Saturday afternoon. She is being held without bail. MacLaughlin appeared in court on Tuesday on charges of felony threats, the Herald reports. She reportedly denied making any threatening statements to MacLaughlin, according to court documents. Playfair told Kennewick police that he and MacLaughlin had been dating since last July, the Herald reports. However, he admitted that their relationship “has been a rocky one.”MacLaughlin works as a freelance reporter for a pair of news outlets in British Columbia, the Herald reports. In the past, she covered the WHL’s Kelowna Rockets.
Look above for 5 pictures of Tieja MacLaughlin, who works as a sports reporter in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Jackson, 19, plays for the Tri-City Americans in Kennewick, Washington. They became boyfriend and girlfriend last summer.
Police reportedly caught her during her journey to confront her teenage boyfriend and she agreed to turn around and head back to Canada. But instead, she kept on tracking him down so the cops arrested her and have charged her with multiple felonies.
Can be held up to 72 hours without charge
Playfair is originally from Fort St. James, B.C., according to biographical information on the team's website. He is the son of Phoenix Coyotes associate coach Jim Playfair, and his brother, Austyn Playfair, was signed to the Americans last year. A spokesperson for the Tri-City Americans said neither Playfair nor the team would be commenting. Tieja MacLaughlin can be held up to 72 hours without charge following her Tuesday court appearance. (@Tieja_Mac/Twitter).MacLaughlin is a freelance reporter for Castanet, an online news website based in Kelowna, and has also written for the Kelowna Daily Courier. Two addresses are listed for her in court documents, one in Kelowna and one in Paris, Ont.
Blatman said MacLaughlin had travelled to Kennewick from Paris. "She got here and apparently there was some sort of a falling out between the two of them, where she became upset that he might have been involved in some other relationship," Blatman said in an interview. Blatman said MacLaughlin ended up staying in a hotel room for the night, but continued to contact Playfair, prompting him to call police. He said officers contacted MacLaughlin and she agreed to leave Playfair alone. "She agreed to do that, said she wouldn't make any contact with him or anything else," Blatman said. "Between that time and the next morning, there were a substantial number of text messages she continued to send Playfair."
Blatman said MacLaughlin was arrested Saturday. She can be held without charge for up to 72 hours after her Tuesday court appearance. A profile for MacLaughlin on the social networking site LinkedIn says she is a reporter for Castanet and the Kelowna Daily Courier. Stories with her byline have appeared in both publications, as recently as this month. A Twitter account that appears to be maintained by MacLaughlin suggests she may have crossed the border into the United States last Friday.
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