Mounties are looking for a suspect who pretended to be a prospective buyer of a luxury watch and robbed the seller at gunpoint.
Richmond RCMP said in a news release Wednesday the robbery happened on Jan. 4 at 9 p.m. in the 9600-block of Alberta Road.
The victim, a 38-year-old Richmond man, had posted a luxury watch on the buy-and-sell site Craigslist and was contacted by an interested buyer. When the buyer arrived, it91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s believed he pulled a gun and made off with the watch.
Police have released a composite sketch of the suspect, who91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s described as Caucasian, with a medium build and a full-sleeve tattoo on his right arm. He was wearing a camouflage hoodie, brown or grey jeans and a baseball cap.
Anyone with information is asked to call police or Crime Stoppers.
ashley.wadhwani@bpdigital.ca
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