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Man admits to robbing Kelowna bank

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Global Okanagan News

KELOWNA – A man will be sentenced in June for robbing a Kelowna bank in January.

A masked man demanded money, without showing a weapon, from a teller at the Dilworth branch of the Scotia Bank on January 8th.

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He fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Witnesses told police which way the robber went and a Police Service Dog tracked the scent to a nearby apartment building where the suspect was found hiding on a lower balcony.

Jason Paul Doucet has now pleaded guilty to robbery.

The judge ordered a pre-sentence report be prepared regarding the personal circumstances of the 20-year-old from Saint John, New Brunswick.

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