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Hamilton police Shoppers Drug Mart robberies A cache of allegedly stolen goods from Shoppers Drug Mart locations in Hamilton is seen in this image. (Hamilton Police Service) <\/p>\nSurveillance video shows suspects robbing a Shoppers Drug Mart store in Hamilton. <\/p>\n
Video of a smash-and-grab style robbery at a Hamilton Shoppers Drug Mart has been released and police say the incident is linked to at least 12 other robberies targeting high-end perfumes in the city.<\/p>\n
Hamilton police said investigators began looking into multiple incidents involving the theft of \u201chigh-value\u201d fragrance products at the pharmacy chain last month. <\/p>\n
In the video, three masked suspects can be seen approaching a glass fragrance case and smashing it open before quickly shovelling perfume and cologne products into duffle bags and exiting the store.<\/p>\n
\u2018Employees and customers fled the area in fear\u2019<\/p>\n
Three of the robberies connected to the investigation occurred over a roughly 12-hour period last week, starting with a break-in at 661 Upper James Street at 9 p.m. on May 21, followed by another robbery at 510 Concession Street hours later and ending with a Friday morning robbery at 1000 Golf Links Road.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring that incident, suspects aggressively smashed glass display cabinets while employees and customers fled the area in fear,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
Police were able to track down a grey Nissan Rogue that was seen leaving one of the robbery scenes. They seized two backpacks containing perfume and cologne products which were affixed with Shoppers Drug Mart stickers.<\/p>\n
An image of the seized goods released by police showed that most of the stolen products were Hugo Boss and Christian Dior colognes and perfumes.<\/p>\n
A hammer, crowbar, and one knife were also seized. Police believed these items were used during the robberies.<\/p>\n
Hamilton police Shoppers Drug Mart robberies A cache of allegedly stolen goods from Shoppers Drug Mart locations in Hamilton is seen in this image. (Hamilton Police Service) <\/p>\n
The total reported losses exceed $21,000, according to investigators.<\/p>\n
Hamilton residents Damian Bent-Gale, 21, Deshawn Davidson, 27, Brandon Ferris, 35, and Nicole Martin, 40, were each charged with three counts of robbery. Bent-Gale was also charged with nine counts of theft under $5,000. Davidson is facing two counts of theft under $5,000 and failure to comply with probation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surveillance video shows suspects robbing a Shoppers Drug Mart store in Hamilton. Video of a smash-and-grab style robbery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[712,45,49,48],"class_list":["post-695267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-apple-news","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695267","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=695267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}