Suspect Arrested After Marathon Bandit Robs 8 Convenience Stores In Just Over 48 Hours
Posted February 20, 2007 12:00 pm.
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If it’s the same guy, he’s been hard at work.
Durham Police have made an arrest after an unprecedented string of robberies over the weekend.
They think one person held up eight convenience stores in just over two days and got away with nearly every one of them. And they finally spotted the man they think was responsible late Monday night.
The spree began on Friday afternoon at 2:15pm, when a man walked into the Whitby Plaza Convenience Store on Brock Street and demanded money from the clerk. The person behind the counter refused and the suspect fled empty handed.
Fast forward a little more than 12 hours. It’s Saturday at 3:25am and a male strolls into the Mac’s Milk at Rossland and Wilson Roads in Oshawa. This time, he’s armed with a knife. The clerk handed over some cash from the till and the guy ran out of the store and into the night.
But cops think he wasn’t gone long.
It’s now Sunday at 4am and police are called to yet another Mac’s Milk, this time near Harmony and Highway 401 in Oshawa.
Two men wearing black face masks tried to get into the store but the clerk refused to unlock the door. The pair fled and nothing was taken.
Two hours later, yet another Oshawa Mac’s at Park Road and Gibb St. was milked for cash by a knife-wielding bandit.
And it didn’t end there.
There were more successful attacks later that same day, one at a smoke shop on Annapolis Ave. around 11am, another at a Kendlewood and Burns convenience mart just after 3pm, followed by a third incident half an hour later at a store on Wilson Road South.
The last hold-up came at 10pm Sunday night, when a blade-wielding suspect walked up to a final Mac’s Milk outlet on Simcoe St. North and demanded money. The clerk turned some over to him and the robber ran.
Late Monday night, some sharp-eyed cops spotted a car and a license plate seen at some of the crime scenes. When they searched the vehicle, they found two balaclavas, some suspected robbery items and most pointedly, a knife.
A 29-year-old Oshawa resident named Theodore Myers has been charged with a variety of offenses, including eight counts of robbery. He’s being held for a bail hearing.
