Man shot Monday in luxury convertible in Rosemont is clinging to life
Samy Mokademm, the man who was shot Monday in Rosemont while he was riding in an expensive luxury car, recently told the police he was an investor from France when he tried unsuccessfully to talk his...
View ArticleLuck Mervil sobs at sentencing hearing for sexually exploiting a minor
Luck Mervil, the popular singer who pleaded guilty this week to having sexually exploited a minor many years ago, broke down and cried while making a statement during his sentence hearing on Friday. A...
View ArticleSeveral Quebecers still stranded in Cuba following plane crash
Dozens of Quebecers who have been stranded in Cuba following the crash of a Cubana Airlines flight on Friday were informed on Tuesday they will have to wait longer before they can return home. On...
View ArticleLuck Mervil sentenced to 6 months for sexual exploitation of a minor
A Quebec Court judge has accepted a joint recommendation and sentenced Quebec singer-songwriter Luck Mervil to a six-month prison term that can be served in the community. Last week, Mervil, 50,...
View ArticleAlleged dapper burglar is a career criminal from Pierrefonds
Edouard Frew, the Pierrefonds resident who was recently alleged to be a prolific lock-picker behind several break-ins in homes in western Montreal, is a career criminal who was once found wandering...
View ArticleTwo Montreal police officers face kidnapping, assault charges
Two Montreal police officers were arrested on Wednesday and were told to report to the Montreal courthouse in three weeks where they face charges alleging they assaulted and threatened a homeless man...
View ArticleMembers of far-right group storm into Vice's Montreal offices
Montreal police were called to the Montreal offices of Vice, the online media organization, after a half-dozen men with alleged ties to the far-right group Atalante stormed into their offices Wednesday...
View ArticleCrown seeks 7-year prison term for well-connected drug smuggler
A man with long-established ties to several organized crime groups in Quebec will learn next month if he will have to serve time behind bars following his conviction for conspiring to smuggle three...
View ArticleQuebec marijuana smuggler follows dad's footsteps into U.S. prison
A Quebec man who followed in his father’s footsteps to become part of an organization that smuggled thousands of pounds of Canadian-grown marijuana across the U.S. border for years has been sentenced...
View ArticleCharter of Quebec Values pushed some to join ISIL, study argues
The intense debate generated a few years ago by Quebec’s proposed Charter of Values was one of the main reasons dozens of young Muslims decided to leave the province and join ISIL in its battle in...
View ArticleMore than 1.7 million methamphetamine pills seized in Lanaudière raids
More than 1.7 million methamphetamine pills were seized and four men arrested over the course of two days while the Équipe nationale de répression du crime organisé (ENRCO) dismantled a large synthetic...
View ArticleMan charged with murdering his landlord in Roxboro
A Roxboro resident has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a man who was shot during the past weekend. Michael David Burns, 33, made a brief appearance before a Quebec Court judge at...
View ArticleAlleged Hells Angels leader Salvatore Cazzetta sues Quebec for $2 million
An alleged leader among the Hells Angels in Quebec has filed a lawsuit against the attorney general of Quebec, seeking more than $2 million while alleging he was detained without cause following his...
View ArticleJury selected for trial of teen charged in stabbing death on Nuns' Island
A jury selected at the Montreal courthouse will begin hearing evidence on Tuesday in the case of a youth charged with the second-degree murder of a teen who was stabbed on Nuns’ Island following a...
View ArticleMan injured in Vaudreuil-Dorion shootout with SQ to plead guilty
A 28-year-old man who was injured in a shootout with police officers in the parking lot of the Sûreté du Québec’s detachment in Vaudreuil-Dorion will plead guilty to some of the eight charges filed...
View ArticleMontreal Mob-tied lawyer Loris Cavaliere is granted full parole
Loris Cavaliere, the Montreal defence lawyer who was sentenced to a 34-month prison term for letting alleged Montreal Mafia leaders use his offices to conduct their meetings, has been granted full...
View Article'Prince of Pot' Marc Emery says Quebec cannabis plan will fail, keep black...
Canada’s highest-profile supporter of the legalization of recreational cannabis said Quebec’s proposed model to sell the drug is doomed to fail and will only serve to keep organized crime in the...
View ArticleAccurso companies were at top of Laval kickback list, trial told
Two companies owned by Antonio Accurso were the biggest contributors of kickbacks to the system of collusion created by the city of Laval, a witness said at the construction magnate’s jury trial on...
View ArticleAccurso trial: Witness says he worked both sides of Laval collusion scheme
Take care of politics and politics will take care of you. That is an expression that always stuck with Jean Roberge, a man who worked both sides of Laval’s system of collusion when it came to awarding...
View ArticleBertrand Charest case: Geneviève Simard, 3 others win right to speak out
Former Canadian Olympic skier Geneviève Simard and three other women who were sexually assaulted by former national ski coach Bertrand Charest had publication bans on their identities lifted on Friday...
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