Tim Bosma: Suspect Dellen Millard is ‘completely in shock’

A 27-year-old car and flight enthusiast charged in the disappearance of Timothy Bosma remains a central mystery to the case as a GTA-wide search closes in on a Waterloo airport hangar and home in his name.

Dellen Millard is the young CEO behind Millardair, an aviation maintenance company housed at Waterloo Regional Airport’s hangar 53, where police were searching Monday.

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He is charged with the forcible confinement of Bosma and the theft of his 2007 black Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck.

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Property records and online postings reveal Millard inherited several pricey properties after he took over the viable family business following the deaths of his grandfather and father. He also may have owned the same model truck he is accused of stealing.

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Millard’s Mississauga lawyer, Deepak Paradkar, said his client runs a “successful” business and is “completely in shock” by the charges.

“It’s a well-to-do family financially,” he said.

Paradkar added he has not yet seen the evidence against Millard, who is exercising his “constitutional right to remain silent.”

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Monday marked a week since Bosma’s disappearance and it remains a mystery what anyone would have wanted with the 32-year-old father or his truck.

Police say Bosma posted his car for sale online and was contacted by two men in their mid-20s, who arrived at his Ancaster home on foot. After leaving with them for a test drive, he never returned.

Just a day earlier, police allege the same men arrived at an Etobicoke business to test a newer Dodge Ram model, but returned that man and departed.

Millard himself appears to have already owned a Dodge truck.

A cherry red 2005 Dodge Ram 3500 was registered to Millard Holdings Ltd., an amalgamated company formerly helmed by his late grandfather, Carl Millard, and father Wayne Millard.

On Monday, Hamilton police confirmed a large covered trailer they say is registered to Millard’s company was found in Kleinburg, Ont. with a black pickup truck inside. Police did not say whether the truck is Bosma’s as they sought a search warrant.

A neighbour who lives next door to the Tinsmith Crt. address where the trailer was found said it first appeared in the driveway late Thursday and the home belongs to Millard’s mother, Madeleine Burns, who is listed as the sole owner.

“It was suspicious in that it was parked right up against the garage,” said Frank Cianfarani, who called the police to have them check out the trailer.

In court documents, Millard is listed as living on Maple Gate Crt. in Etobicoke, which was transferred from grandparents Carl and Della to Dellen and his father in April 2008.

He was also listed on a Derry Rd. W. home in Mississauga alongside his father in April 2008. That property was sold for $795,000 in June 2012, several months before his father’s death.

Millard purchased a rural Waterloo Region property on Roseville Rd. in 2011 for $835,000. That property is also being searched, Hamilton police confirmed Monday night.

According to Paradakar, Millardair performed aircraft maintenance with several staff at the Waterloo hangar, which was modernized after the company moved from a Pearson airport hangar in 2012.

But a Transport Canada spokesperson confirmed the company’s certification as an approved maintenance organization was cancelled this past February at the company’s request.

The maintenance and manufacturing branch of the government department oversees standards for aircraft operations in Canada and gives approval to do specific maintenance work.

It is not clear what work Millardair was continuing to do at the hangar.

Pictures posted to a Facebook page between March 2010 and February 2012 show Millard working on several cars inside what appears to be an airport hangar. A video posted March 2012 on the same page shows Millard inside a small helicopter, its propellers rotating as it sits on the tarmac.

On Monday afternoon, forensic identification officers were seen entering the hangar and taking photographs around the perimeter as a police van remained parked outside the building’s door.

With files from Kamila Hinkson, the Hamilton Spectator and the Waterloo Region Record.