{"id":204966,"date":"2025-10-11T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204966\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T10:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:53:29","slug":"etobicoke-retail-robberies-suspect-arrested-another-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204966\/","title":{"rendered":"Etobicoke retail robberies: suspect arrested, another at-large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One suspect has been charged and another remains at-large following a series of retail robberies throughout Etobicoke over the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say they responded to four incidents on May 29 and June 4. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The first happened at a store located in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/5skyse6aK3HB6Q5x9\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/5skyse6aK3HB6Q5x9\">Royal York Road and Lake Shore Boulevard West<\/a> just before 10 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police allege two suspects drove up in a vehicle, with one male suspect walking into the store with a mask to hide his identity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He allegedly pulled out a handgun, demanded cash, and ran out of the store with some money before driving away in the awaiting vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers responded to the second incident at around 2:10 a.m. in the <a href=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\">same area<\/a>, for a company alarm call. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In this case, authorities say two suspects drove to a store on a motorcycle. One male suspect allegedly walked into the store with a motorcycle helmet on, produced a handgun and demanded money. Police say he left with with an undisclosed quantity of cash before taking off in the awaiting motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The third incident happened immediately after, police say, in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/jZrXJP3ALfEfkKvB9\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/jZrXJP3ALfEfkKvB9\">Royal York Road and The Queensway<\/a>. Authorities allege the same thing happened, involving two suspects with one male suspect wearing a motorcycle helmet and brandishing a handgun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hours later on the same day, at around 10 p.m., police say they responded to a holdup call in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/3KuBrZPGoo7Pc9WE9\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/3KuBrZPGoo7Pc9WE9\">Royal York Road and Dundas Street West<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say two suspects attended a store on a motorcycle with one male suspect entering the store wearing a motorcycle helmet. They add that he allegedly pulled out a gun and demanded cash, fled empty-handed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators identified a male suspect and arrested him on Oct. 8. Members of the Hold Up squad executed a search warrant and allegedly recovered an imitation handgun and other items of evidentiary value. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police arrested 34-year-old Stefan Peric, of Toronto, on Wednesday, who is facing 16 charges, including robbery with offensive weapon and fail to comply court order. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers say there is no description for the outstanding suspect. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are asking anyone with information to contact them or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One suspect has been charged and another remains at-large following a series of retail robberies throughout Etobicoke over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-204966","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\/204966","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=204966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}