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B.C. Police has announced to have arrested the so-called “Nephew Bandit,” who investigators reveal was habitual of traveling around the country and conning senior citizens out of thousands of dollars while pretending to be his victims’ relative. Vancouver Police disclosed to have arrested Richard Earl Rupert at a local hospital on Wednesday afternoon, concluding an elaborative five-year cross-Canada search by multiple police forces.
57-year-old Rupert was arrested on 18 warrants issued by multiple police forces including Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. Among the charges including in the warrants are fraud, break and enter, robbery, attempted fraud and theft under $5,000. It was explained by Vancouver Police Sgt., Randy Fincham, that the force was informed of Rupert entering a local hospital in June for medical reasons under an assumed name: Jerry Whitehead. Fincham elucidated that a staff member identified Rupert from a wanted poster and alerted the authorities causing his arrest at around 3:30 p.m. local time. Fincham stated that “there are a number of victims across Canada that are sleeping easier knowing that this person is now in custody.”
Rupert became famous by his nickname, i.e. Nephew Bandit, owing to his way of conning senior citizens, as he usually pretended to be a relative of his victims in order to get them to hand over cash. Rupert’s victims usually ranged between the ages of 78 and 95, among which was an 81-year-old Toronto grandmother whom he told three years ago that he was helping the son of the owner of her apartment building collect the rent.
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