Police charge woman for robbery

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Police have charged a woman for a robbery and five thefts that occurred in Halifax.

On December 23, 2021, police responded to a robbery that had occurred on Bilby Street in Halifax. A woman approached another woman who was not known to her and grabbed her from behind around the neck. The woman took the victim’s wallet and fled the area on foot.

Yesterday, January 16, officers located the suspect at a residence in Halifax and arrested her without incident.

Kiara Marie Organ, 18, is scheduled to appear in Halifax Provincial Court today to face one count each of robbery and assault by choking.

Organ is also facing five counts of theft, five counts of possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000 and one count of breach of probation in relation to five thefts from stores in Halifax that occurred between November 23, 2021 and January 15, 2022.