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Suspect charged in Montreal armed robbery as police continue search for accomplice

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WATCH ABOVE: One suspect has been charged but the manhunt continues for a second suspect tied to a bank robbery and car crash in Montreal's Mile End. As Felicia Parrillo reports, investigators spent Saturday interviewing witnesses and combing through surveillance footage – Sep 3, 2016

Geneviève Dallaire, 35, was charged with armed robbery Saturday afternoon in connection with a heist at a TD bank on the corner of Bernard and Hutchinson streets in Outremont, just north of downtown Montreal.

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Police continue to search for her accomplice, who has been on the run since Friday.

This photo shows the TD bank in Outremont that was the target of an armed robbery Friday. Police continue to search for one of two suspects wanted in connection with the heist. Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016. Felicia Parrillo/Global News

According to Montreal police spokesperson, Jean-Pierre Brabant, the bank robbery happened at 11:30 a.m. Friday.

WATCH: One suspect is in custody following an armed robbery and car crash in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood. Police spent the better part of Friday searching for a second suspect who fled the scene of the crash on foot. 
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Brabant said the suspects fled the scene in a stolen taxi, heading south on Park Avenue and making a left on Saint-Viateur Street, before crashing into another vehicle on the corner of Saint-Urbain Street in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood.

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Dallaire, the driver of the get-away car, was arrested at the scene but a male suspect fled on foot.

A police operation, involving a canine unit and a SWAT team, failed to locate the runaway suspect, said to be a man in is his 30s.

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The manhunt was called off at 4 p.m. Friday but investigators remained at the scene.

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Saint-Viateur Street was closed for several hours between Saint-Urbain Street and Saint-Laurent Boulevard as officers canvassed the area.

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