Police have arrested a 36-year-old Peterborough man in connection with four separate robberies in a single week.
The first robbery happened at around 12:50 a.m. last Monday (November 13), when officers were called to a business in the Hunter Street and Burnham Street area after it was reported two men had entered the store and took cigarettes and lottery tickets before fleeing.
Later that day at around 12:57 p.m., police received an online report about a man who entered a store in the King Street and Bethune Street and forcefully took cigarettes from behind the counter before fleeing.
On Thursday at around 6:45 p.m., officers were called to a business in the Parkhill Road and Water Street area where they learned that a man had taken the automatic coin register and brandished a knife at employees when they tried to stop him.
On Friday at around 2:15 a.m., officers were notified about a man who had entered a store in the Sherbrooke Street and Denure Street area and fled with up to 80 packages of cigarettes.
Through investigation, police determined the same suspect was involved in all four incidents. At around 3:45 p.m. on Friday, an officer on general patrol in the area of Dublin Street and Aylmer Street spotted the suspect and took him into custody.
A 36-year-old Peterborough man has been charged with four counts of robbery with theft, failure to comply with a release order, and failure to comply with probation. The man had been bound by a release order and a probation order with the condition to not possess any weapons as defined by the criminal code.
The accused man was held in custody and appeared in court on November 18.
Police are continuing to search for a second suspect in the first robbery.
