Fingerprints led police to a 61-year-old Pitt Meadows man who pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of mailing lewd photographs of himself to a much younger female neighbour.
Momchilo Michael Zivojinovich was charged with one count of mailing obscene matter six months after a 24-year-old woman who lived in his townhouse complex received two photographs of a man’s genitals.
The photographs were turned over to Ridge Meadows RCMP, who eventually applied for a search warrant to search Zivojinovich’s home.
Sexually explicit notes were hand-written on the back of both photographs, which were dusted for fingerprints.
In a search warrant application filed in Port Coquitlam Provincial Court, police reveal the fingerprints were matched in January to Zivojinovich.
He was in the police database because of a previous conviction on six counts of making indecent phone calls.
Police also learned that he lived in the same Pitt Meadows housing complex as the woman who received the photos.
He was arrested by police on Feb. 14 when he stepped outside his house to walk his dog.
Zivojinovich was taken to the RCMP detachment, where he shown copies of the photographs.
In the search warrant application, police said he admitted the photographs were taken by him and that he “vaguely remembered” writing on the back and mailing them.
A Canon printer, photo paper and a Canon Powershot camera were eventually seized from Zivojinovich’s home.
The woman who received the photos thought police would never find out who sent them.
The photographs and the graphic content of the notes made her feel unsafe.
“I had no idea who it was. I was always looking over my shoulder,” she said.
The woman, who requested to remain anonymous, praised police for the work they put into finding Zivojinovich.
“I am thrilled,” she said after learning Zivojinovich had been charged.
