{"id":819434,"date":"2026-07-22T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819434\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:29:10","slug":"toronto-man-arrested-for-allegedly-robbing-north-york-store-with-concealed-blunt-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819434\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto man arrested for allegedly robbing North York store with concealed &#8216;blunt object&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police have arrested a man in connection with a retail robbery investigation in North York.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the area of\u00a0Islington Avenue and Millwick Drive at around 11:45 a.m. on July 14 for a robbery at a store.<\/p>\n<p>A man allegedly entered a store wearing a mask to hide his identity. He approached a person behind the store counter and allegedly demanded cash while holding a blunt object hidden under a towel pointed at the person\u2019s shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>The victim opened the cash register and the suspect allegedly took a quantity of cash and fled in a truck that was parked outside.<\/p>\n<p>A police investigation ensued and the suspect was identified. On July 21, officers stopped the suspect while he was driving his vehicle and a search warrant was executed on the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Officers recovered clothing allegedly worn during the robbery when the suspect was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Christophe Thompson, 35, of Toronto, was charged with robbery with an offensive weapon and disguise with intent.<\/p>\n<p>He was scheduled to appear at the Toronto Regional Bail Centre on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police have arrested a man in connection with a retail robbery investigation in North York. Police were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-819434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819434","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=819434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}