15-year-old Toronto boy charged in series of armed pharmacy and bank robberies

A youngster who allegedly took half in a lot of armed pharmacy and financial institution robberies throughout the Higher Toronto Space is going through a laundry listing of expenses in reference to the “takeover-style” heists.

The 15-year-old Toronto boy was a member of a bunch of boys who Toronto police stated dedicated at the very least 14 pharmacy robberies and one monetary establishment theft within the metropolis, in addition to in Peel and Halton areas, between Sept. 3 and Nov. 21.

 


Throughout these incidents, police stated, the boys travelled in stolen autos to every location and demanded narcotics and money in what investigators described as “takeover-style robberies.”


“At some incidents, they used a handgun, some used a knife, and different suspects used bodily violence to manage any customers or staff contained in the shops,” police stated in a information launch issued Friday.


In response to investigators, in a lot of the pharmacy robberies, the suspects have been in a position to make off with portions of money and narcotics. Nonetheless, within the case of the financial institution theft, police stated the suspects left empty-handed.


The group of boys fled every scene in an awaiting automobile, police stated.


Following a multi-jurisdictional investigation by police in Toronto, York, Peel, and Halton areas, investigators have been in a position to establish at the very least one of many boys concerned within the robberies.


On Wednesday, officers with the service’s Maintain Up Squad executed a search warrant in reference to the investigation and took a 15-year-old boy into custody.


The suspect, who can’t be named beneath the Youth Legal Justice Act, is charged with 9 counts of theft with a firearm, 15 counts of disguise with intent, 13 counts of conspiracy to commit indictable offence, and eight counts of unauthorized possession of a firearm, and a lot of different expenses with a number of counts.


He was scheduled to seem in a Toronto courtroom on Dec. 29.


The investigation is ongoing and anybody with data associated to the collection of robberies is requested to contact police at 416-808-7350 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477) or www.222tips.com.