News Items tag as: Armed Robbery

Chase RCMP investigating grocery store armed robbery
February 01, 2018 - 11:17 AM

CHASE – A man with a knife held up the clerk at a store in Chase last night.
Armed robbery at Vernon Cash Store
November 11, 2016 - 8:53 AM

VERNON - Police are asking for help from the public in identifying a suspect who robbed Vernon Cash Solutions Inc. on 26 Avenue in Vernon yesterday afternoon.
Arrests made in violent store robbery in Lumby
May 03, 2016 - 3:05 PM

VERNON - Police have arrested two men in connection to a violent robbery at Mac’s Convenience Store in Lumby.
Rash of armed robberies in the region gets a closer look from RCMP
January 19, 2016 - 2:30 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - They would have had to drive awfully fast to make this date but RCMP will be interviewing two men arrested after a Kelowna liquor store robbery about their possible involvement in robberies in Salmon Arm and Kamloops.
Customer gets gun in face, no booze, during liquor store robbery
January 18, 2016 - 2:15 PM

KELOWNA — Someone in Kelowna got more than they bargained for when visiting a local cold beer and wine store — a gun in their face.
Armed robbery in Clinton
January 07, 2016 - 3:38 PM

CLINTON - A lone suspect made off with an undisclosed amount of cash after an armed robbery at a Clinton grocery store last night.
Suspected Tim Hortons robber arrested after public tips
March 31, 2015 - 1:26 PM

WEST KELOWNA - RCMP on the Westside have arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with a robbery at the Tim Hortons on Carrington Rd. Saturday night, March 28.
Serial bank robber taunts police with another robbery
January 29, 2015 - 2:11 PM

VERNON – A man police allege is on a three-province robbery spree has likely hit his ninth bank just one day following an inter-provincial news blitz warning the public about him.
TIMELINE: Bank robber strikes three provinces in two months
January 27, 2015 - 3:24 PM

VERNON - A man police are calling a serial armed robber has stolen cash from eight different banks across three provinces in just 52 days, and police are worried he's not done yet.
Serial armed robber strikes in three provinces
January 27, 2015 - 11:00 AM

VERNON – A serial bank robber who struck eight banks in three provinces in less than two months has managed to elude police, who are now asking the public for help identifying him.
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