Man charged in 2 Surrey bank robberies<\/p>\n
Published 9:06 am Friday, June 12, 2026<\/p>\n
A 22-year-old man has been charged with allegedly robbing two banks in Surrey in early June.<\/p>\n
The first alleged bank robbery occurred on June 6, around 10:50 a.m., near 104 Avenue and King George Boulevard. The man allegedly threatened bank staff with a weapon and left the bank with the money. There were no reported injuries. Police could not find the suspect.<\/p>\n
Two days later, on June 8, around 11 a.m. a man walked into a bank near 128 Street and 96 Avenue and allegedly threatened the staff with a weapon. He left the bank with the money, and there were no reported injuries. The suspect could not be located, police said.<\/p>\n
Surrey Police, with the help of Integrated Forensics Identification Services and the Real Time Intelligence Centre (RTIC) were able to identify the suspect and arrested him on June 9, 2026.<\/p>\n
Gregory Roca Bates Pedro was charged with two counts of robbery on June 10 and remains in custody until his next court appearance on June 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man charged in 2 Surrey bank robberies Published 9:06 am Friday, June 12, 2026 A 22-year-old man has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-737973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737973","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=737973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}