Dustin Robinson. Provided by RCMP. Dustin Robinson. Provided by RCMP.
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Sarnia man pleads guilty to rash of robberies

By Dave Dentinger
September 4, 2019 - 3:56pm

A city man has pleaded guilty to a rash of robberies including pharmacy hold-ups in Sarnia and Wyoming on the same day in March of 2017.

Dustin Robinson, 36, will be sentenced October 1 for robbing a number of pharmacies and a bank in southwestern Ontario and Alberta.

Lambton OPP investigate a robbery at Paul Marley Pharmacy in Wyoming March 7, 2017. BlackburnNews photo by Melanie Irwin

He pleaded guilty in Windsor court to a total of 15 robberies in 2016 and 2017, including five in Windsor, four in Lakeshore, two in Lambton County, and four in Alberta.

Sarnia's Vidal Pharmacy and the Paul Marley Pharmacy in Wyoming were both robbed Tuesday, March 7.

Robinson was arrested in Sarnia in October of 2017 on a Canada-wide warrant issued after an Alberta judge, in July 2017, had granted him bail and he disappeared.

He had been charged in April of that year after an inter-provincial investigation by Windsor police, Essex County OPP, Calgary police, and the RCMP.

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