A 20-year-oldÌýÉ«É«À² man is facing nearly 50 charges in connection with eight robberiesÌýin ScarboroughÌýthat stretch back to mid-January.
É«É«À² police responded to the mix of street and retail robberies between Thursday and last Jan. 19, some involving weapons that left victims with minor injuries.
In the street robberies, the suspect typically wore a ski mask and demanded victims hand over their belongingsÌý— including cellphones and e-scooters. In some cases a gun or knife was brandished, police saidÌýin a .
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Various victims were also assaulted during the robberies, and suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.
In the retail robberies, investigators said employees at a business nearÌýÌýwere threatened with a knifeÌýwhen they tried to intervene as items were taken. An employee was also chased around the store while being threatened with a knife, police said.
None of the employees were injured in the incidents.
Police found the 20-year-old man in the same Ìýstore on Friday and charged him with 48 offences, among them six counts of assault with a weapon, three counts of robbery, three counts of fail to comply with a Youth Criminal Justice Act sentence order and fail to comply with probation.
He was scheduled to appear in court Saturday morning at the É«É«À² Regional Bail Centre.
Anyone with information about the robberies is asked to call police at 416-808-4100 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477.
Anastasia Blosser is a breaking news reporter, working out of
the Star’s radio room in É«É«À². Reach her via email: ablosser@thestar.ca
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