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Bandits with pellet gun try to hold up armoured car
JOSH WINGROVE
Globe and Mail Update
December 17, 2008 at 11:59 PM EST
Police were hunting a trio of would-be robbers in Mississauga last night, after they tried unsuccessfully to hold up an armoured car outside a bank.
It was just after 9:30 p.m. when a pair of armed guards were working outside a TD Bank on Southdown Road, just north of Royal Windsor Drive and immediately adjacent to the entrance for the Clarkson GO Train Station.
They were approached by three men, who sources said were armed with a pellet gun, but the guards weren't having any of it.
“Some type of altercation occurred where the suspects fled on foot,” Peel police Constable Samantha Nulle said.
The guards are thought to have fired back at the trio, who ran away and dropped their pellet gun. Const. Nulle would only say the sequence of events is an “unconfirmed report.” A weapon is believed to have been recovered at the scene.
Police swooped in on the area, closing the Clarkson station and alerting local hospitals, but weren't able to find the would-be robbers.
“We were flooding the area, looking into possibilities as to where they may have fled,” Const. Nulle said. “No money was obtained.”
The GO station was expected to be operating normally this morning. The armed guards, whose names weren't released, weren't injured.
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