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2 youths arrested following afternoon robbery in Dartmouth

Halifax Regional Police Headquarters on March 02, 2018. Lee Brown/The Canadian Press

Two people have been arrested in connection with a robbery in Dartmouth Thursday afternoon.

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Halifax Regional Police say they responded to a report just after noon of a “sensory irritant” being sprayed in one of the open areas of the Alderney Gate Public Library.

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Officers then determined that a man had been robbed and sprayed with the sensory irritant by a group of youths.

“A bystander pulled the fire alarm at that location causing the area to be evacuated,” police said in a news release a few hours later.

READ MORE: Halifax police in standoff on Windmill Road in Dartmouth

Two of the youths were arrested a short time later.

They’re scheduled to appear in court at a later date to face robbery charges.

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