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Terror trial: Jury hears details of young couple's arrest in a Montreal park
The young couple facing terror-related charges was placed under arrest while they were strolling through a park on a spring evening in Villeray. Details of the arrests made two years ago were...
View ArticleInvestigators stumbled on bomb recipe, terror trial of Montreal couple hears
National security police investigators were not looking for evidence a young couple were allegedly preparing a homemade bomb when they searched the condo they rented in the...
View ArticleAccused Googled 'perfect murder' and 'supermarket,' trial hears
Randy Tshilumba could not get a lift from friends after he allegedly killed Clémence Beaulieu-Patry and hid from police in a restaurant washroom. The evidence that Tshilumba, 21, tried desperately to...
View ArticleLaval corruption: 4 men sentenced in Project Honorer
The cases of more than two-thirds of the people who were charged in Laval’s municipal corruption case have been settled as four more men were sentenced on Wednesday, including the former head of...
View ArticleMaxi store murder: Tshilumba was delusional, court told
Randy Tshilumba was delusional when he stabbed Clémence Beaulieu-Patry to death, the accused’s lawyer told the jury in the murder trial at the Montreal courthouse. The lawyer, Philippe Larochelle,...
View ArticleTwo more plead guilty to corruption, collusion in Laval
And then there were three. Only three of the 37 people who were charged in 2013 in Project Honorer, the investigation into widespread corruption and collusion that plagued Laval’s city hall from 1996...
View ArticleMan caught transporting cocaine during Mafia probe gets 30 months
A man from the Mauricie region expressed relief at the Montreal courthouse on Friday as he was sentenced to a 30-month prison term for transporting cocaine and cash while drug traffickers were under...
View ArticleSouth Shore man sentenced to 34 months for role in Ponzi scheme
A 61-year-old South Shore resident has been sentenced to a 34-month prison term for his role in a Ponzi scheme that bilked more than200 investors out of $19 million. Benoît Sénécal of Longueuil...
View ArticleMan, 29, hit by car on Sherbrooke St. in N.D.G.
A 29-year-old man was sent to a hospital after being hit by a car at the corner of Sherbrooke St. W. and Wilson Ave. in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. Montreal Police Constable Manuel Couture had little...
View Article'Bus Stop Rapist' to be released from penitentiary in early October
The man who came to be known as the Bus Stop Rapist while Montreal and Laval police worked to solve who was behind a series of sexual assaults on young female victims is scheduled to leave a federal...
View ArticleNumber of drone sightings near provincial detention centres has skyrocketed
It’s a bird. It’s a plane, or there’s a chance you’re seeing a drone heading toward one of Quebec’s provincial detention centres. Statistics recently released by Quebec’s public security minister...
View ArticleFather, son to pay $223,000 in pit bull attack on girl, 12
A father and his adult son from the Abitibi region have been ordered to pay more than $223,000 to a young woman who was attacked by their three pit bulls in May 2011. Mégan Dubé was 12 at the time of...
View ArticleQuebec Court of Appeal allows man to pursue religious orders in a...
The Quebec Court of Appeal delivered a decision on Tuesday that will allow man, who alleges he was the victim of sexual abuse decades ago at the hands of a priest who served at St. Joseph’s Oratory and...
View ArticleMontreal police seek 'Gino Mad Dog' in connection with Plateau homicide
Montreal police believe a dispute over clothing between alleged street gang members is what was behind a fatal shooting inside a club three years ago. Investigators also believe four people who were...
View ArticleMan to face charges in hit-and-run accident in Dorval
A 50-year-old man is expected to appear in court on Thursday to face charges in connection with a hit-and-run accident that left a teenager in critical condition while he apparently tried to cross...
View ArticleWeather update: Heat, thunderstorm warnings cancelled as temperature drops
Environment Canada has lifted the severe thunderstorm watch it had issued for the Montreal area earlier in the day on Wednesday. The notice was lifted shortly after rain began to fall at around 5 p.m....
View ArticleIsmaël Habib to be sentenced Friday for trying to join ISIL in Syria
Ismaël Habib, the Montreal resident convicted three months ago of seeking to leave Canada to join ISIL in Syria, is expected to learn how much time he will have to spend behind bars on Friday. While...
View ArticleMontreal police arrest three in investigation of fetanyl overdoses
Three men are expected to charged at the Montreal courthouse on Saturday after police seized what they believe is heroin and fentanyl while carrying out search warrants in the...
View ArticleUpdate: Ismaël Habib sentenced to 9 years for his attempt to join ISIL in Syria
While saying Ismael Habib was obviously desperate to leave Canada to join ISIL in Syria, a Quebec Court judge sentenced the Montreal man to an overall prison term of nine years on Friday. The sentence...
View ArticleRare moment of peace before mother's death, daughter testifies at father's...
Catherine de Boucherville spent her final hours alive in the mistaken belief her long nightmare was about to end with an amicable divorce, the slain woman’s daughter told a jury at her father’s murder...
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