Thirsty Monkey Jacob Najjar: Three charged over alleged kidnapping

Two males and a teenage boy have been charged over their alleged roles within the kidnapping of a preferred TikTokker and cafe proprietor.

Jacob Najjar, the proprietor of Thirsty Monkey, was allegedly dragged from his unit on Grazier Avenue in Lidcombe, in Sydney’s west, at round midnight on November 4.

The 36-year-old was discovered nearly 24 hours later some 30km away on the facet of Decrease Washington Drive in Bonnet Bay with facial accidents.

Police arrested two males, aged 30 and 27, together with a 17-year-old boy on Friday evening.

Detectives imagine the alleged kidnapping of Mr Najjar is linked to a separate incident the place a 44-year-old man was allegedly kidnapped from a store in Regents Park on Friday final week.

That man was returned to his dwelling the next day with minor facial accidents.

The 30-year-old man has been charged with two counts of take/detain in firm with intent for ransom event precise bodily hurt, conspiracy to take/detain in firm with intent for ransom and knowingly direct actions of felony group.

The youthful man and teenager had been charged with take/detain in firm with intent for ransom event precise bodily hurt, enter constructing/land with intent commit indictable offence, two counts of take part felony group contribute felony, two counts of be carried in conveyance taken with out consent of proprietor, conspiracy to take/detain in firm with intent for ransom, and drive motorcar throughout disqualification interval.

The trio had been all refused bail and had been attributable to face court docket on Saturday. 

Two days after Mr Najjar was launched from Sutherland Hospital, Thirsty Monkey shared a video of him again at work on Wednesday.

‘Thanks for everybody’s considerations, Jacob is ok and he is again at work, individuals spreading pretend information, making an attempt to get some viewers & following on this app,’ the caption learn.

‘Thirsty Monkey will not be closed and is and can all the time be protected to go to. We’ll proceed with our unbeatable acai, a lot like to everybody and thanks for the assist.’

Mr Najjar was seen making an acai bowl within the video as he talked into the digital camera.

‘You realize what the information are like, something for some clickbait,’ he mentioned.

‘Don’t fret concerning the information, don’t fret about something. We’re nonetheless open and we’re nonetheless grinding.’

The TikTokker has opened up cafes in Parramatta, Wentworth Level and Marrickville together with his enterprise a success amongst locals attributable to its fashionable acai bowls.

His enterprise TikTok web page has greater than 20,000 followers whereas his private Instagram account has over 37,000.

Mr Najjar was as soon as pictured with senior members of the Alameddine crime community.

Each day Mail Australia doesn’t counsel any wrongdoing by Mr Najjar.