PICKERING -- Four suspects were taken into custody shortly after a Pickering restaurant worker was assaulted and robbed early Sunday.
Durham police officers stopped a vehicle moments after the robbery, at the Palace East on Dillingham Road, and recovered property stolen from the victim as well as other evidence.
Police said a male employee was walking to his vehicle in the Palace East parking lot at about 4:30 a.m. when he was accosted by four suspects and threatened with a handgun and a knife. The victim sustained a cut to his face and the assailants fled after slashing the tires on his vehicle, police said.
Officers in the area spotted the suspect vehicle moments after the robbery and took four men into custody. In the vehicle cops found property taken during the robbery as well as a large knife, gloves, hooded sweatshirts and a mask, police said.
Facing robbery and weapons charges are Jamar Clarke, 19 of Root Crescent, Ajax, 20-year-old Andre Tomlinson of Willcocks Crescent, Ajax, and two Ajax youths, aged 16 and 17.
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