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Goderich taxi driver. Joel Coulombe played a vital role in aiding police locate a man suspected
of armed robbery on July 21. The suspect was app.rehended near Sebringville.
BMO target of armed robbery
Dave Sykes
signal -star publisher
A daring midday robbery netted a thief $1,000 in cash
after a suspect walked in to the Bank of Montreal on The
Square Tuesday, July 21 around 1:30 p.m. and demand-
ed cash from a teller under threat of a weapon.
The suspect was arrested less than two hours later in a
police takedown near the Sebringville OPP detachment
on Highway 8 after the robbery
suspect left Goderich in a local
taxi headed for Kitchener.
Warren Steen, of no fixed ad-
dress, is charged with armed
robbery and was remanded in
custody in Walkerton jail after
a brief appearance via video in
bail court in Goderich Monday.
He will appear in court again
Thursday, July 30.
Const. Joanna Var. Mierlo of
the Huron OPP said that while
the suspect threatened use of a
weapon in the robbery, none was
used or recovered.
"It is my understanding that
there were some witnesses in
the bank and people were inter-
viewed, " she said. "There was
threat of a weapon but none was
recovered or used. It was good
that nobody was hurt"
For Joel Coulombe of Any-
time Taxi in Goderich, what be-
gan as routine taxi fare that after-
noon turned into anything but a
regular ride.
Asked to pick up a fare behind
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lombe said a man approached the cab, opened the door
and asked the driver if he wouldn't mind waiting a few
minutes as he had left something behind.
The man returned a few minutes later, said he needed
to go to Kitchener and paid $150 in cash when told that
payment of the $130 fare was required in advance.
"He said he had a couple of tough days and asked if
I would mind if he got in the rear of the van and laid
down," Coulombe said. "He was pretty quiet but when
he did speak his tone was low and I couldn't make out
what he said. But I never did see a weapon."
While driving along Highway 8 outside of Goderich,
Coulombe saw police cars making their way towards
Goderich and noticed his passenger made a point to stay
low in the back seat.
Curious about the police presence, Coulombe lowered
his steering wheel and began text messaging his backup
driver wondering if there was a problem. Over the fol-
lowing 30 minutes, he was able to discern from mes-
saging his backup and with assistance from his wife,
Tammy, that a robbery had taken place on The Square
and that his passenger fit the description of the suspect.
"Once I was driving through Mitchell I was sure he
was the man they were looking for and I became con-
cerned;" he said. "He gave no indication that he had a
weapon but he wasn't acting quite right."
As he approached Sebringville, Coulombe was passed
by two or three police cruisers travelling west on High-
way 8. They quickly pulled in behind him and he turned
up the radio so the passenger, who was laying down in
the back seat, wouldn't hear the sirens.
"There were police up ahead waiting and soon as I was
across from the OPP station I slammed on the breaks and
jumped out of the vehicle," he said. "Before my feet hit
the pavement, officers were there with guns drawn and
there was no incident. He was arrested right there"
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