Suspect in association with Blackfalds robbery arrested in Edmonton<\/p>\n
Published 11:00 am Friday, March 20, 2026<\/p>\n
A suspect was arrested after a robbery at the Chevron Gas station on Vista Trail in Blackfalds on March 6.<\/p>\n
The investigation into the robbery showed that two masked men in winter clothing and one carrying what looked like a handgun entered the store and stole cash and cigarettes.<\/p>\n
The suspects were then last seen crossing Vista Trail and were believed to have fled in a vehicle.<\/p>\n
On March 18, with assistance from the Edmonton Police Service Robbery Section and Tactical Unit, Blackfalds RCMP executed a search warrant at an Edmonton residence.<\/p>\n
Inside the residence, 30-year-old Edmonton resident Joshua Sweeney was arrested and has been charged with armed robbery with a firearm, disguise with intent, and mischief.<\/p>\n
Sweeney was taken before a Justice of the Peace and remanded into custody.<\/p>\n
He will make a court appearance on March 24 at the Alberta Court of Justice in Red Deer.<\/p>\n
A warrant for the arrest of the second suspect, 31-year-old Edmonton resident Gerard Pariseau, has been issued.<\/p>\n
The Edmonton Police Service was an integral part of the successful conclusion of the investigation, Cpl. Dallas Traill of the Blackfalds General Investigation Section said<\/p>\n
\u201cThis investigation is a great example of how collaboration between the RCMP and Edmonton Police Service leads to meaningful results.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suspect in association with Blackfalds robbery arrested in Edmonton Published 11:00 am Friday, March 20, 2026 A suspect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-549586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549586","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=549586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}