{"id":28286,"date":"2020-12-18T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=28286"},"modified":"2020-12-18T00:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T05:56:14","slug":"police-seek-suspects-following-armed-bank-robberies-in-aurora-and-richmond-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/police-seek-suspects-following-armed-bank-robberies-in-aurora-and-richmond-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek suspects following armed bank robberies in Aurora and Richmond Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">York Regional Police are searching for a suspect following armed bank robberies in Aurora and Richmond Hill on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Police, on Thursday, December 10, at 2.30 p.m. they were called to the Bank of Montreal at the northwest corner of Wellington Street East and Bayview Avenue following a report of an attempted robbery with a firearm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOfficers learned that the suspect entered the bank and pointed a handgun at an employee and demanded cash,\u201d said Constable Laura Nicolle. \u201cPrior to obtaining any money, the suspect fled the scene in a black car that was being driven by a second suspect. The victim was not physically injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt approximately 3.30 p.m., the same suspects attended a bank located at 1580 Elgin Mills Road East, Richmond Hill. One of the suspects entered the bank armed with a handgun and obtained a quantity of cash. They fled the scene in the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe first suspect was described as male, Black, approximately 20 years of age, 6\u2019, with a slim build and wearing black clothing and a black hat. No description was obtained for the second suspect at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to contact the York Regional Police Hold-Up Unit at 1-866-876-5423 x6630 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS or www.1800222tips.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Brock Weir<\/strong><br \/><em>Editor<br \/>Local Journalism Initiative Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F28286&amp;t=Police%20seek%20suspects%20following%20armed%20bank%20robberies%20in%20Aurora%20and%20Richmond%20Hill&amp;s=100&amp;p[url]=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F28286&amp;p[images][0]=&amp;p[title]=Police%20seek%20suspects%20following%20armed%20bank%20robberies%20in%20Aurora%20and%20Richmond%20Hill\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F28286&amp;text=Like%3F\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Police%20seek%20suspects%20following%20armed%20bank%20robberies%20in%20Aurora%20and%20Richmond%20Hill&amp;body=Like%3F:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F28286\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>York Regional Police are searching for a suspect following armed bank robberies in Aurora and Richmond Hill on Thursday afternoon. According to Police, on Thursday, December 10, at 2.30 p.m. they were called to the Bank of Montreal at the northwest corner of Wellington Street East and Bayview Avenue following a report of an attempted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-7me","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 23:25:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}