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| Date: January 29, 2010 | ||
| PAIR CHARGED IN ROBBERY | ||
Windsor Police have charged two men after a gunpoint robbery at a downtown hotel yesterday. At 6:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon, uniformed officers responded to a a hotel in the 500 block of Tuscarora for a report of a robbery. Officers were met by two Toronto area men who advised that they were in town visiting friends and were staying at the hotel. The victims told officers that two suspects had entered their room, each brandishing handguns and had robbed the victims of a quantity of oxycontin tablets and cash. Officers were able to view surveillance video from the hotel and observed two men and a woman leaving the hotel in a dark coloured pick up truck. The woman was also seen on the video in the hallway talking on a cell phone and propping open a side door of the hotel just prior to the robbery. The investigation revealed that one of the two victims had filled a prescription for a quantity of oxycontin earlier in the day. They then picked up a female acquaintance and attended the hotel. After being in the room for approximately 20 minutes, they heard a knock at the door and the woman answered it. The two suspects entered the room pointing the guns at the victims and demanded the victims narcotics and cash. The two suspects left the room along with the woman. At 12:15 a.m. this morning, two alert uniformed officers on patrol on Drouillard Rd. at Seminole St. observed a silver vehicle make an erratic turn in front of them. The driver of the vehicle matched the description of one of the suspects in the robbery. Officers stopped the vehicle on Tecumseh Rd at Central Ave. Upon investigating, officers found a second male an d female who matched the descriptions of the suspects involved in the earlier robbery. A search of the occupants turned up a quantity of cash and a "flip" style knife and a quantity of cocaine. All three suspects were arrested without incident. No firearms were found at the time of arrest. Michael BERNARD - 29 years of Windsor is charged with Robbery and Use of a Firearm to Commit an Indictable Offence. Jason TOMKINS - 35 years of Windsor is charged with Robbery, Use of a Firearm To Commit an Indictable Offence, Possession of a Prohibited Weapon, Possession of a Controlled Substance and two counts of Failing to Comply with a Condition of Judicial Release. - 30 - |
