A 50-year-old man has been charged in connection with a string of bank robberies in Vaughan this year. <\/p>\n
York Regional Police<\/a> said they were called to a robbery in progress at a bank near Highway 7 and Weston Road on Tuesday. <\/p>\n Police say that a lone male suspect threatened bank staff and demanded cash.<\/p>\n Police say the suspect was carrying replica weapons, a fake gun and explosive device.<\/p>\n Officers arrived at the bank while the suspect was still inside and arrested him without incident.<\/p>\n The suspect is being charged in connection with other bank robberies that occurred on Feb. 5<\/a>, April 21<\/a>, and Sept. 22, all in the vicinity of Highway 7 and Marycroft Avenue.<\/p>\n Carp Zveaghintev, of no fixed address, is being charged with nine offences related to the robberies. <\/p>\n Police suspect there are additional victims and are encouraging them to come forward. <\/p>\n Investigators are asking anyone with information to contact them or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 50-year-old man has been charged in connection with a string of bank robberies in Vaughan this year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-172729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}