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Man charged in double-slaying in Vaudreuil-Dorion last year claims self...
Richard Hunt, the man facing charges in connection with a double murder in Vaudreuil-Dorion late last year, has apparently posted a claim on Facebook that the homicides were committed in self defence....
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'No murder in empathy and compassion,' Michel Cadotte's lawyer argues
The defence lawyer representing Michel Cadotte plans to ask that her client be granted bail while he is charged with the murder of his wife, Jocelyne Lizotte, a woman whose request for medical...
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Man shot by Montreal police on New Year's Eve charged in connection with...
A Vaudreuil-Dorion resident who was shot by the Montreal police on New Year’s Eve faces new charges in connection with an attempted murder carried out in Montreal last spring. Lindel Darling, 24, has...
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Charges to be stayed in major Montreal Mafia bust Project Clemenza
The RCMP’s refusal to disclose how it was able to intercept messages from smartphones during a major investigation into two distinct groups tied to the Montreal Mafia is believed to be one factor that...
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11 who remain accused in Project Clemenza will have a hearing in May
Thirty-five people accused of such serious crimes as kidnapping and drug trafficking saw the cases brought against them in a major RCMP investigation into the Montreal Mafia dropped on Tuesday because...
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Appeal court asked to convict Westmount naturopath acquitted of homicide in 2015
A judge made a “fundamental error” in acquitting a Westmount naturopath of manslaughter two years ago, a Crown prosecutor told the Quebec Court of Appeal on Wednesday. Prosecutor Dennis Galiatsatos...
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Montreal Mafia: Charges stayed in Project Clemenza included a violent kidnapping
On March 31, 2011, a man was grabbed from the parking lot of a Dairy Queen in Montreal North, forced into a car and held against his will for more than a week while he was beaten with two-by-fours....
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Former Montreal North mayor gets six-month prison term in sexual assault case
The teenage girl who was sexually abused by former Montreal North mayor Gilles Deguire says she has realized she can never turn the page on the damage the former police officer has caused her. The now...
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High-ranking SQ officers request a stay of proceedings in their criminal cases
A former head of the Sûreté du Québec and two of his former officers appeared before a judge Friday, asking him to stay criminal charges dating back three years. In October 2012, Richard Deschênes,...
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Violent offender James Medley can leave halfway house in August, parole board...
James Medley, the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce resident who came to notoriety two decades ago for having beaten, raped and tortured runaway teenage girls, will be able to move out of a halfway house this...
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Emergency landing in Ohio leads to cocaine discovery, 2 Quebecers arrested
Two men from Mirabel were charged Thursday in a U.S. federal court after authorities in Ohio discovered more than 90 kilograms of cocaine inside their small airplane when it was forced to make an...
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Sûreté du Québec officers overloaded in investigation of Montreal police
Police investigators recently assigned to examine the Montreal police internal affairs division have plenty of work on their hands, say police sources familiar with the probe. “They are overloaded....
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Pichet expects arrests in Montreal police internal affairs division
It’s possible that factions within the Montreal police used the force’s internal affairs division as a tool to settle scores against each other, Chief Philippe Pichet conceded on Friday. Pichet made...
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Police believe West Island man charged with mugging seniors has other victims
The Montreal police are asking for the public’s help while they seek other potential victims of a man charged with mugging four elderly victims on the West Island in recent weeks. Mario Conti, 62, of...
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Mark Lafleur's case involving stolen property returns to court Monday
The criminal case brought against Mark Lafleur, son of Montreal Canadiens hockey legend Guy Lafleur, earlier this year returns to court on Monday as he remains charged with being in possession of...
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Crowns seeks 17-year sentence for St-Laurent man who tried to kill...
The Crown has asked that a St-Laurent borough resident receive an overall 17-year sentence for his attempt to strangle an 11-year-old girl to death, in part because the victim fears he will seek...
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Judge erred in case of woman who stopped for ducklings, defence tells appeal...
The Quebec Court of Appeal heard arguments Tuesday in the case where a woman was convicted of criminal negligence causing the deaths of two people when she stopped her car on a highway in an effort to...
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Inmate who died in penitentiary had serious mental health problems
An inmate who died last week while serving a life sentence for murder at a federal penitentiary north of Montreal suffered from serious mental health problems, according to his parole records. On...
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First murder case in Quebec placed under a stay of proceedings because of...
Canada’s justice system apparently failed Anuja Baskaran a second time as the Montreal man charged with her murder saw his case placed under a stay of proceedings on Thursday after a Superior Court...
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Judge denies request to throw out Montreal mob-related murder case
A Superior Court judge has rejected a request from five men, charged in connection with a gangland slaying, who sought to have their case stayed by arguing it has taken the Crown too long to prosecute....
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