People tied up at Vancouver nightclub robbery
A criminal justice expert is critical of the Vancouver Police Department’s decision not to notify the public about an armed robbery that left one person with “life-altering” injuries and six employees tied up at a Yaletown nightclub in April.
“Investigators usually withhold information because they don’t want to alert suspects or scare off potential witnesses, but you’ve got individuals going into a nightclub, holding people up at knife- and gunpoint and scaring the living daylights out of them.”Vancouver Police spokesperson Const. Tania Visintin confirmed Friday the robbery was kept out of the public eye in an effort to preserve its continuing investigation.
“During the takeover-style robbery, six victims had their hands zap-strapped and were forcibly confined. One victim was seriously assaulted and suffered a life-altering injury,” police issued in the news release. Gordon said “Police requests for help from the public for information usually come quickly after such an event, not several months later.”
Vancouver Police also informed the public about a March robbery that saw two suspects injured staff with use bear spray at a boutique downtown within a week’s time.
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