Knife-wielding meat thieves arrested

Greater Sudbury Police have arrested three people in connection with a robbery at a grocery store in Chelmsford last week.

On March 26 at around 5:50 p.m., a police news release says a man entered a grocery store in Chelmsford and proceeded to fill a backpack with various meat products, before simply walking out of the store.

He was a approached by the store's loss prevention personnel, police said, who attempted to arrest him for theft under $5,000.

Police allege the suspect took off running with the backpack full of meat with the store staff in pursuit. GSPS reports the man then pulled a knife and threatened them, before climbing into a waiting vehicle with two other occupants.

Store staff were able to provide police with a vehicle description, including the make, colour and plate number.

Twenty-five minutes later, police located the vehicle, pulled it over and arrested the driver and one occupant. Although the knife-wielding man was not present, surveillance video from the store helped officers identify him.

He was arrested the next day as he was leaving a residence in Sudbury.

The two men who were in the get-away vehicle (a 45-year-old man and a 59-year-old man, both of Sudbury) are charged with robbery with a weapon. They are scheduled to appear in court in April.

The third suspect, a 25-year-old man also from Sudbury, is charged with robbery with a weapon, possession of weapon for dangerous purpose and two counts of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm.