A 35-year-old “foreign national” has been arrested but his two alleged accomplices are still sought for a violent jewelry distraction robbery in Richmond Hill last month.

York Regional police say officers responded to a collision in a plaza parking lot near Yonge St. and Canyon Hill Ave. – north of Elgin Rd. E. – where a pedestrian was injured on July 15.

“Upon arrival, officers determined that the 78-year-old female had been subjected to a violent jewelry distraction robbery,” Sgt. Lisa Moskaluk said in a statement released Friday.

Investigators have now released video of the three alleged thieves driving off in a white 2024 Nissan Rogue after knocking the senior citizen down with the vehicle and nearly running her over.

The footage also captured a witness rushing to the elderly woman

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