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Hundreds gather at funeral for Montrealer killed in Hamas attack on Israel

Alexandre Look is remembered as a hero and a person who "defined his success by his generosity."

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Community centre in Côte-St-Luc evacuated because of suspicious package

A SWAT team used a robot to analyze and neutralize the package.

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Inmate who had affair with jail official so she would smuggle for him denied...

The people who have worked with him in jail believe his difficult upbringing and his loss of identity steered him toward a life of crime.

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Police seize more than 370 kilos of cannabis in Montreal and Laval

Police also seized 2,700 cannabis plants and $13,000 Canadian.

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Neo-Nazi blogger Gabriel Sohier Chaput will be freed while he appeals sentence

A Quebec Court of Appeal judge determined the reasons behind the appeal of the 15-month sentence Sohier Chaput received "are serious."

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Laval police trying to locate 60-year-old man

"He might be found in area from Rivière-Rouge to Mont-Laurier."

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False Romeo who defrauded five women charged again

"Mario Thouin targets his victims in public places and gains their trust to then extract money from them," police say.

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Hells Angel fails in attempt to avoid having to live at halfway house

"The board notes that it is not unreasonable to conclude that you have a propensity to violence considering your membership in a criminalized biker group recognized as such by the courts."

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Accused 'ignored me totally' after neighbour found dead, witness tells trial

The victim, Bonnie-Lyn Finnigan, was shot once in the back.

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Getaway driver in botched Mafia hit must serve at least 13 years behind bars

Angelo D'Onofrio was killed in 2016 while he was reading a newspaper at a café in Ahuntsic-Cartierville.

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Notorious Montreal drug trafficker once tied to Hells Angels granted day parole

Gaétan Bradette told the Parole Board of Canada he regrets that two of his sons followed in his footsteps.

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Two teens charged with murder of street gang member in Terrebonne

The suspects were apprehended after a car was set on fire less than a kilometre from where Gordy Jean-Paul was shot.

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Man who rented gun to woman found dead in Laval is convicted in domestic...

The revolver Albano Pierre used to threaten his partner was later rented to Marly Édouard, who was killed in Laval in 2021.

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Defence asks jury to consider mental illness, self-defence in St-Laurent...

Two psychiatrists determined Selwin George Chin was suffering from undiagnosed PTSD when he shot Mark Jackson in 2020.

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Man convicted of sexual assault at UQAM residence no-show for sentence hearing

Earlier this year, it seemed impossible to have Cheikh Sidiya transferred from a jail in Manitoba to Montreal. On Thursday he didn't show up and an arrest warrant was issued for him.

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Jail time 'broke him,' witness tells sentence hearing of La Fontaine Tunnel...

Mario Roy called Pierre (Doc) Mailloux, a psychiatrist and media personalty, as his expert witness on Friday.

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Condo building in Nuns' Island where woman was killed was humming with activity

The suspect was wearing dark jeans and a dark hoodie despite warm weather outside.

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'My head was empty' after learning wife was killed, husband testifies at...

Tammy Shao Jing Lu was killed on Sept. 7, 2020, apparently while heading out for an appointment at a beauty salon.

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Hitman who killed Mob enforcer Eddie Melo granted parole

Charles Gagné still fears for his life because he became a witness for the prosecution and claimed he was offered $75,000 for the hit.

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Man found guilty of first-degree murder in St-Laurent shooting

A surveillance camera captured the moment when Selwin George Chin shot Mark Jackson outside a barbershop in 2020.

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SQ seeks public's help to locate teenager last seen in Lachine

Mya Jack, 16, was also reported as missing in mid-August, but she was located a short while later.

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Men who mistakenly killed her husband in Mafia hit job are 'stained with...

"Life is not normal when a human being kills another. It is inhuman," widow of Angelo D'Onofrio tells court.

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Court of Appeal orders new trial for former city exec committee chair Frank...

Police recordings of conversations Zampino had with his lawyers violated his rights, but did not require a stay of proceedings, the court ruled.

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Neo-Nazi blogger Gabriel Sohier Chaput seeks release while he appeals sentence

Sohier Chaput was sentenced to a 15-month prison term in September.

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Soldier who sexually abused Montreal girl receives 42-month prison term

Alexandre Matheussen pleaded guilty to sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and corrupting a minor.

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Two teens injured in stabbing near Olympic Stadium

Both victims suffered injuries to the upper body.

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Family of 6-year-old girl killed by her mother sues youth protection

They say youth protection left her with her mother despite four warnings she was not living in a safe environment.

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Head of Bishop's University student council opposes 'massive increase to...

"The provincial government continuously cites rebalancing the use of the French language in Montreal as the objective of this policy."

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Man who abducted teen in Outremont declared dangerous offender

Michel Cox was out on a statutory release in 2020 as part of sentence he received in 2005 for sexually assaulting eight victims when he abducted the 16-year-old girl.

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Man who killed his stepfather declared not criminally responsible

Guillaume Dion Roy also stabbed his mother, a neighbour and a doorman inside a downtown apartment building last year.

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'I will never look at myself as a murderer,' says man convicted of St-Laurent...

On Feb. 15, 2020, Selwin George Chin shot Mark Jackson in the heart during an argument outside a barbershop in the St-Laurent borough.

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Man charged with home invasion in Ville-Émard begins trial before jury

"This is real life. This event event affected real people, real kids."

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Man charged with attempted murder of Leonardo Rizzuto denied bail — again

The alleged Montreal Mafia leader was injured in March when shots were fired at his vehicle.

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Men charged with shooting at Montreal East building tied to alleged Mafioso

The same building has been damaged by gunfire and arson in the past.

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Suspect in Nuns' Island murder was arrested at a daycare, court told

Investigators waited nearly six hours for all the children at the daycare to be picked up before carrying out a search warrant.

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Suspect displayed full moon while interrogated in Nuns' Island murder case

"I believe it comes from nerves. The nervous system. It's contagious," Frank Cao said of rashes on his skin.

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Nuns' Island murder suspect said he may have napped in garage where victim...

Frank Cao told police he must have fallen asleep in his BMW, the same vehicle seen leaving the building where Tammy Shao Jing Lu was killed.

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Two men charged with causing indignity to body of Inuit woman

Alasie Tukkiapik went missing in March and her body was found in September.

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Jury selection begins in trial of youth charged with murdering Jannai...

The 16-year-old Côte-des-Neiges resident was killed on Oct. 18, 2021 outside Coronation School.

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Youth charged with murder of Jannai Dopwell-Bailey bragged about it on...

The prosecutor says the accused mocked the 16-year-old victim in the video posted on social media.

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Ali Ngarukiye trial: Records show Mamadi Camara wasn't using phone when...

Man who was wrongfully arrested as a suspect in the attack on a police officer was called back by the prosecution to testify.

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Teen was stabbed seconds after he left school in C.D.N., trial hears

Jury views surveillance videos showing accused sprinting from the scene after stabbing to death Jannai Dopwell-Bailey, 16.

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Jannai Dopwell-Bailey was stabbed up to 9 times outside Montreal school,...

Pathologist Caroline Tanguay said the victim was stabbed at least six times moments after he exited Coronation School in Côte-des-Neiges in October 2021.

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St-Laurent resident agrees to sign peace bond in terrorism case

Mohamed Amine Assal, 19, is required to wear a GPS tracking bracelet for 12 months so the RCMP can monitor his movements.

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Employees at school where Jannai Dopwell-Bailey was killed feared 'something...

They were concerned about the presence on school grounds of the accused, who had been expelled weeks before the stabbing.

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Witness weeps as she describes Jannai Dopwell-Bailey's final moments

"He took his hand away from his side and that's when I realized he had not been punched. He had been stabbed. There was blood all over his hand," court hears.

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Montreal resident convicted in absentia of killing cop in Albania won't be...

"The evidence is so defective and so unreliable that extradition would be a miscarriage of justice," the judge ruled.

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CBSA prevents 72 stolen vehicles from being smuggled out of Port of Montreal

Fifty-four of the vehicles came from Ontario and 18 were from Quebec.

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Ontario resident charged with killing unhoused man near Place-des-Arts métro

Jesse John Brandon Moore was already detained when Montreal police arrested him as a suspect in the Sept. 4 homicide.

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Powerful organized crime figure Gregory Woolley gunned down in...

Woolley came to notoriety while he was a member of the Rockers, a Hells Angels support club that did much of the dirty work in the biker war.

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