AUTHOR: Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
TITLE: London man charged in poker heist
DATE: 2:28 AM
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BODY:
<p class="mobile-post">Three men, including one from London, were charged yesterday with shooting
at police following a violent poker game robbery. Two of the men were
arrested in Toronto and the the third was picked up in London. Police say
three men stormed the Thornhill Social Club on Toronto's Finch Avenue West
around 4 a.m. Wednesday and robbed 20 men playing poker. Shots were fired
into the ceiling and the card players were roughed up. Police driving to the
original call spotted a van leaving and pulled it over, but it then sped
away onto Dufferin Street and then Highway 401. As the officers gave chase,
a passenger in the van leaned out and fired several shots. Omar Jermaine
Betty, 25, of Toronto, Ryan Shields, 26, of Toronto, and Ezra Lottery, 25,
of London, have been charged with robbery, attempted murder, forcible
confinement and discharging a firearm.</p>
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