WARMINGTON: Currency exchange operator brutally beaten, robbed of $60,000 |
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The way this senior citizen was viciously mugged at his money exchange business looked like something out of Pulp Fiction.
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But this was Erin Mills in Mississauga.
Certainly not the Erin Mills the late great mayor Hazel McCallion thought would be the model suburban neighbourhood where families can live safety and successfully.
It’s still a great place. But this year has been a tough one with no shortage of thugs committing serious, violent crimes.
As a viral cellphone video — included in a tweets from Nitrin Choprin (@chopsnitin) and many others — shows, these masked thugs not only robbed a beloved Mississauga man who works in a currency exchange booth of all of his business’s money but also beat him to a pulp.
This man — affectionately known as “Mr. Sabir” — is fortunate he’s not dead.
It was close. A couple more hard punches to his skull and who knows?
“Four individuals assaulted him and stole approximately $60,000 in cash,” said his son, Areeba Sabir. “During the robbery, my dad was beaten and had to be taken to the hospital.”
It’s an incident that occurred Dec. 13, at 5:38 p.m., inside the........