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Customer threatens to kill store employee over gift card: Guelph police

Anonymous tips can be left with Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Matt Carty / Global Guelph

A gift card may have sparked a rage in Guelph.

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The Guelph Police Service was called to a west-end convenience store Monday morning.

Investigators say someone threatened to kill a store employee after discovering one of the two gift cards he had purchased at the store did not work.

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They say the customer was irate toward the worker after demanding a refund. While the clerk pleaded for calm, the man damaged a phone that was on the counter.

The man left the store but then returned as officers were inside interviewing the employee. They were able to make an arrest.

A 53-year-old man from Guelph was charged and will be in a Guelph courtroom Sept. 19.

 

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