{"id":837536,"date":"2026-07-31T05:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837536\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T05:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:57:47","slug":"ops-charge-man-after-early-morning-robbery-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837536\/","title":{"rendered":"OPS charge man after early-morning robbery downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"publish-date\">Posted Jul 30, 2026 06:45:55 AM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-modified-date\">Last Updated Jul 30, 2026 09:10:41 AM.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) Robbery Unit has charged a man after a retail robbery in downtown Ottawa on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>On July 28, just before 7:30 a.m., the suspect entered a convenience store in the 100 block of Rideau St. The man demanded merchandise and was refused by staff. As a result, the suspect assaulted a staff member before leaving the store with stolen merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>OPS officers located the man a short distance away and arrested him without incident.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, 34-year-old David Charette, has been charged with robbery, breach of probation, and uttering threats.<\/p>\n<p>He was held in custody by police and was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Ottawa 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=ottawa.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\/05\/1778352312_74_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":"Posted Jul 30, 2026 06:45:55 AM. Last Updated Jul 30, 2026 09:10:41 AM. The Ottawa Police Service (OPS)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-837536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837536","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=837536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}