UPDATED (Feb. 19, 9 a.m.) During a court appearance in Red Deer on Feb. 18, Rory Jackson, 47, was remanded into custody and will next appear in Red Deer provincial court on Feb.
UPDATED (Feb. 19, 9 a.m.) During a court appearance in Red Deer on Feb. 18, Rory Jackson, 47, was remanded into custody and will next appear in Red Deer provincial court on Feb. 28 for election and plea in connection to four charges laid against him stemming from a robbery at the Gaetz Avenue Liquor Store in Red Deer on Jan. 23.
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UPDATED: (Feb. 12, 3:30 p.m.) Rory Jackson will next appear in court in Didsbury on Feb. 24 for election and plea in connection to the charges he faces stemming from the robbery of the Olds TD Canada Trust Bank on Jan. 25.
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UPDATED: (Feb. 4, 10:30 p.m.) Red Deer RCMP have charged Rory Jackson with robbery, using a firearm during the commission of an offence, using a disguise during an indictable offence and failing to comply with an undertaking in connection to a robbery at the Gaetz Avenue Liquor Store in Red Deer that took place at 7:15 p.m. on Jan. 23.
He remains in custody and will appear in Red Deer court to answer to these charges on Feb. 18.
Police said a man wearing a black balaclava and carrying a handgun entered the liquor store and demanded cash from the clerks.
He left the store with an undisclosed amount of money.
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The man accused of robbing the Olds TD Canada Trust bank not once, but twice in the last seven months, appeared in Didsbury court on Jan. 29 for a bail hearing that has again been put over.
Coming into court in leg shackles and a Harley-Davidson motorcycles hooded sweatshirt, Rory Alan Jackson, 47, appeared briefly to hear his bail hearing was being put over until Feb. 10.
He will remain in custody until that time.
Jackson is charged with robbing the TD Canada Trust bank of $3,134.68 just after 5 p.m. on Jan. 24 and using an imitation weapon—a black pellet handgun—during the robbery.
He is also charged with wearing a mask during the course of the robbery, breaching a recognizance condition that he not be within a two-block radius of the TD Canada Trust bank or the Olds Liquor Store and breaching a recognizance condition that he not be found with any weapons in his possession.
Jackson is also charged with robbing the TD Canada Trust bank on June 4 when he lived in Olds.
Police said that during the Jan. 24 robbery, a man wearing a mask and brandishing a handgun allegedly entered the bank on 50 Avenue just before 5:30 p.m., demanded money and made off with cash.
The suspect left the bank on foot heading west carrying a bag containing the stolen cash.
No bank staff were injured during the Jan. 24 robbery and no verbal threats were made during the crime, police said.
Police from Olds, Sundre and Didsbury scoured the community for several hours following the robbery and a police canine unit from Red Deer was involved in the search for the suspect.
The suspect at one point changed his clothes and removed his disguise near a building west of the bank as he fled.
Police arrested Jackson in Innisfail as he was returning to his residence at about 10:15 p.m.
Innisfail RCMP members received a call from police in Olds to watch for the suspect and four Innisfail Mounties set up surveillance on a residence on 39th Street where it was believed the suspect was evading police.
When police knocked on the door, the suspect answered and was arrested and taken into custody without incident.
A subsequent search of the suspect's vehicle produced items RCMP said were used in connection to the Olds robbery.
Other Olds-based charges against Jackson include a count of theft under $5,000 relating to an incident at the Olds Liquor Store on June 20 and a count of unlawfully operating a vehicle while disqualified from doing so relating to an incident on May 26.
Seven fraud-related charges against Jackson out of Sundre include using fraudulent cheques to defraud the Bergen Liquor Store of $432.35 in liquor and the Sobeys grocery store of $1,797.99 in groceries between July 11 and 13.
None of the charges against Jackson have been proven in court.
~With a file from Johnnie Bachusky
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