Family unable to come to terms with jury's verdict in murder case
The relatives of a young man who was murdered in Côte-des-Neiges say they are still reeling over a jury’s decision last month to acquit two of the four men who were charged with causing his death....
View ArticleBank robber could be deemed a dangerous offender
A career criminal who forced the closure of several streets in Mile End after he and a woman held up a bank two summers ago was convicted Thursday on all of the charges he faced even though his...
View ArticleThree employees who collected coins from parking meters convicted of theft
Three men who were fired five years ago from the organization that manages the city’s parking meters were found guilty on Thursday of several counts of theft for having stolen toonies from the boxes...
View ArticleSexual abuse: Women use social media to warn teens about West Island tattoo...
Two young women are using the power of social media to warn teenagers about sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of a West Island tattoo artist who used his boutique as a hangout for troubled girls...
View ArticleQuebec resident facing 11-year sentence in the U.S. on pot charges
A Quebec man from a small town near the New York State border is facing the possibility of an 11-year prison term after he pleaded guilty this week to having smuggled thousands of pounds of...
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Jury trial begins for notorious Quebec men accused of three homicides
Two men who made headlines when they used a helicopter to escape from a detention centre near Quebec City four years ago saw their trial, on six charges related to three homicides, begin Thursday at...
View ArticleFormer SNC-Lavalin VP accused of bribing Libyan officials will go to trial
A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled on Friday that the delay was not unreasonable for former SNC-Lavalin vice-president Sami Abdellah Bebawi, who was awaiting trial on charges alleging he bribed Libyan...
View ArticleJury selection set to begin in case involving alleged plot to kill Raynald...
Jury selection is scheduled to begin in less than three weeks in the case where Maurice (Mom) Boucher is charged with plotting to kill organized crime figure Raynald Desjardins. Superior Court Justice...
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Villa Maria students protest announced closing of music school
More than two hundred people took to the streets Saturday morning to protest the coming closure of Villa Maria High School’s music school, a place of learning that predates Confederation. Students who...
View ArticleAccused stabbed drug dealer, then hit panic button, manslaughter trial told
An Île-Bizard resident waited until after he fatally stabbed a drug dealer to whom he owed money before he pressed the panic alarm installed inside his home, a court heard Monday. Prosecutor Valérie...
View ArticleInmate beaten to death for a few grams of tobacco, court told
A man who was killed at the Montreal Detention Centre nearly two years ago was beaten to death by three fellow inmates for just a few grams of tobacco, the prosecutor in the murder trial of the trio...
View ArticleMedia attention is factor in conditional discharge for Denis Coderre's son
A Quebec Court judge listed the heavy media coverage former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre’s son received while his fraud case was before the courts as a reason to justify granting him a conditional...
View ArticleMontreal money launderer sentenced to five years in jail, serves two months
On Jan. 30, Leng Ky Lech, a woman convicted of laundering millions of dollars for a notorious cocaine trafficker, was sentenced to a five-year prison term for not having paid a hefty fine related to...
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Italian cops pull fast one, send 7 tonnes of salt to Montreal drug smugglers
Drug smugglers based in Montreal who were expecting to receive a seven-tonne shipment of hashish from Pakistan were sent salt instead after police officers in Italy pulled a fast one on the people...
View ArticleEx-Coast Guard member won't be jailed for agreeing to drug-smuggling bribes
A Nova Scotia man who agreed to accept bribes while he worked as a quartermaster for the Canadian Coast Guard will serve no time behind bars for helping a man he believed was a cocaine smuggler....
View ArticleMontreal couple acquitted of terror-related charges negotiate toward peace bond
A Quebec Court judge was informed on Friday that the young couple acquitted recently on terror-related charges are negotiating with the Crown on what conditions they can accept to live with while the...
View ArticleRichard Henry Bain was sentenced like a terrorist, his lawyer argues
The lawyer who represented Richard Henry Bain in his murder trial plans to argue the convicted killer was sentenced as if the murder he carried out on the night of the provincial election six years ago...
View ArticleMan serving time for warden's murder in 1978 to get first taste of freedom
One of Quebec’s most notorious inmates serving time at a federal penitentiary will be getting a slight taste of freedom for the first time in four decades. Gerald Gauthier, 72, was recently granted...
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Montreal case against 'Prince of Pot' pushed back to May 30
The case brought against Marc Emery, the man who opened a series of cannabis dispensaries in Montreal while the federal government was taking its first steps toward legalizing the drug, has been pushed...
View ArticleEx-Hells leader 'Mom' Boucher pleads guilty to jailhouse assassination plot
Maurice “Mom” Boucher has pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill well-known crime figure Raynald Desjardins. Boucher entered the plea at the Gouin courthouse Tuesday morning. By doing so, he avoided...
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