Foul smelling suspect forces victim to drive to bank BY MEGAN DELAIRE mdelaire@metroland.com
Staff Sgt. Mike Haarbosch doesn’t remember investigating anything like it before in Ottawa. Police say the city’s 33rd and final home invasion of 2016 began inside a home on Longshire Circle and ended
nearby on Avonhurst Avenue, but not before the suspect forced the victim to take him on a detour. The suspect, a man who police are still trying to identify, allegedly entered the Nepean home through an unsecure door around 1:20 a.m. on Dec. 30. He confronted a female
victim in the upstairs of the house and, threatening her with a gun, demanded she go to the bank with him to withdraw money. Haarbosch said that while home invasions – robberies in private residences that take place while a tenant is home – are recurrent in the city, if not common, the circumstances
of the Dec. 30 robbery are rare. Police investigated 33 robbery home invasions in 2016, but Haarbosch said he has never investigated one where the suspect forced the victim to drive somewhere. The victim drove the suspect to her bank, where police say she followed the suspect’s
orders and withdrew cash. She then drove back home, and the suspect left the vehicle along the way, on Avonhurst Avenue. There were no injuries. The suspect is described as a white male between 30 and 40 years old, 5-feet-9 inches tall, with a deep voice. He is also described as obese, with laboured breathing, and he re-
portedly smelled bad. Police are asking anyone with information about the home invasion and robbery, to call the break and enter unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 2655. Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800222-8477, or by downloading the Ottawa police app.
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