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“It seems like nobody got injured which is a good thing,” she said.

Outside, officers found the 30-year-old man in a car. The man allegedly fled in the vehicle and police followed.

Acting Insp. Domenic Di Passa told the Toronto Sun that the man eventually “bailed out and took off on foot, but he was caught after a brief foot chase.”

Leonardo Peralta of North York is charged with 10 counts of robbery and one count of dangerous driving.

The boy, also from North York, faces 10 robbery charges and 10 charges for wearing a disguise with intent. The boy could not be identified because of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

While police would not comment on the relationship between the two accused, the fact that investigators released the 30-year-old’s name suggests the two were not related. Had they been family, police wouldn’t identify the man because it would risk identifying the minor.

Asked if police were concerned that the boy may have been coerced into committing the robberies, Const. de Kloet said she couldn’t “make any allegations like that.”

“I mean, what it boils down to — correct me if I’m wrong — but a Grade 10 student should know the difference between what’s right and what’s wrong,” she said.

Peralta appeared in a north Toronto court on Wednesday morning. He will remain in custody until his appearance on Nov. 2.

In January 2008, a 20-year-old man identified as Leonardo Peralta was convicted in a spree of nine robberies in Ottawa and Toronto in a month — three of which he carried out in under 40 minutes, the Ottawa Citizen reported. He stole more than $16,000 in the series of robberies in August, 2007. When he was arrested, he was covered in dye from an exploding dye pack that a teller planted in a bag of cash.