Bank employees bound in robberies across Ontario: police [Video]

Four suspects are in custody and one other man is wanted in connection with series of “co-ordinated” bank robberies across Ontario over a 16-month period, Ontario Provincial Police say.

At a news conference on Tuesday, police officers with several Ontario law enforcement agencies were on hand to discuss the results of the multi-jurisdictional investigation, dubbed Project Opal.

According to investigators, a group of suspects were responsible for eight bank robberies that occurred in western, central, and eastern Ontario between Dec. 8, 2022 and March 16, 2024.

The robberies, investigators said, occurred in areas policed by the OPP, the Barrie Police Service, the Belleville Police Service, Durham Regional Police, Niagara Regional Police, and York Regional Police.

Each police service began investigating bank robberies in their respective regions and “quickly determined” that the robberies were part of a “larger, more co-ordinated operation,” OPP Deputy Commissioner Marty Kearns told reporters on Tuesday morning.

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