$10K reward offered in armoured truck robbery at Fairview Mall
Posted May 14, 2014 9:15 am.
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GardaWorld security services firm is offering a reward of up to $10,000 following a heist of just under $100,000 from one of its trucks at Fairview Mall in January.
Two men allegedly held up two security guards at gunpoint outside a bank at Sheppard Avenue East and Don Mills Road on Jan. 20.
Officers said one of the suspects, both of whom were armed with handguns and completely masked, exchanged fire with one of the two guards.
Surveillance video shows the suspects pulling up next to the truck in a 2000 silver Dodge Caravan and robbing the security guards. Only a portion of the video was disclosed and that part doesn’t show the exchange of gunfire.
No one was hurt, but the suspects took the money and fled in the silver Dodge Caravan that they ditched about a kilometre from the scene.
“This is our concern: if you’re going to rob an armed guard that has a 40-calibre Glock on his side, you’re taking a heck of a risk and you’re putting the citizens of Toronto at risk,” Staff Insp. Mike Earl said.
Police want to speak with a woman who bought the van 10 days before the robbery through a Kijiji ad. It’s believed she was duped into buying it and that she wasn’t part of the robbery, Earl said.
“She‘s a key witness.”
The woman is described as black, five-foot-six, 160 pounds with long hair and a round face.
“This is a planned event. To make a purchase of a vehicle 10 days before, using a female, probably duped, to purchase this vehicle and then to pull up the way they did,” Earl said. “They knew the G4S truck was going to be there. They just weren’t happening to be driving by.”
