Road rage appeal rejected; Laval man who punched a driver will be jailed
A Laval resident has been ordered to report to jail within 48 hours after the Quebec Court of Appeal rejected his request to overturn the verdict in a case where he was convicted of aggravated assault...
View ArticleDrug-dealing grandmother sentenced; pit bull may get second chance in N.Y.
Frances Richardson, who saw two of her grandchildren attacked by a dog she was looking after, has been sentenced to perform 100 hours of community service for drug trafficking. The 62-year-old...
View ArticlePointe-Claire man to plead guilty to 2015 Port of Montreal silver heist
A West Island resident is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday to playing a role in the theft of more than $10 million worth of silver ingots stolen from the Port of Montreal more than three years...
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Little Italy homicide victim recently served sentence for drug conviction
The man who was gunned down inside a restaurant in Little Italy Tuesday night had recently completed a sentence for his role in a plot to smuggle a large amount of cocaine into Canada. Two sources...
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West Island man in Project Silver pleads guilty, will have no criminal record
A West Island resident, who was one of the first people to be charged after more than $10 million worth of silver was stolen from the Port of Montreal three years ago, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to...
View ArticlePerjury, obstructing justice charges dropped against Montreal police officer
A Montreal police officer accused of committing perjury and obstructing justice in a high-profile case brought against him and his partner saw the charges filed against him dropped this week. David...
View ArticleN.D.G. woman to be charged in theft from Montreal Canadiens' group
A 27-year-old Notre-Dame-de-Grâce resident is scheduled to make her first appearance at the Montreal courthouse next week on a charge alleging she stole a large sum of money from the company that owns...
View ArticleRingleader of Montreal 'grandparent scam' granted day parole
The leader of a group of fraud artists who scammed elderly people collectively out of roughly half a million dollars through a so-called grandparent scam has been granted day parole. Patrick Dinucci,...
View ArticleChild luring: Longueuil man accepts long-term offender designation
A man who has been convicted twice of having trolled Facebook looking for young teenage girls he could possibly extort for sex agrees that he should be declared a long-term offender. The designation...
View Article90-month sentence for man who blames porn for assault, home invasions
A man who linked his early porn exposure to break-ins at three young women’s Montreal homes and the sexual assault of one was sentenced Friday to a prison term of more than seven years. On Dec, 23,...
View ArticleAccused in Kirkland shooting to undergo further psychiatric evaluation
A West Island man who was charged after his five-year-old son and father-in-law were shot in a Kirkland home last Friday has been ordered detained at the Philippe-Pinel Institute where he is to undergo...
View ArticleLachine man charged with threatening a Journal de Montréal reporter
A 22-year-old Lachine man has been charged with uttering threats at a Journal de Montréal reporter to prevent him from reporting on his court case. Jessy Dylan Lapointe, who’s being held at the...
View ArticleVictim dies a month after attack; homicide charges expected
A coroner has determined that an 80-year-old man who died on Friday did so as a result of the injuries he suffered when he was attacked more than a month ago in the Ville-Marie borough. Montreal police...
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Jury convicts man who used Kirkland library in drug smuggling conspiracy
A West Island resident who used the Kirkland municipal library to send messages via email while he was plotting to smuggle drugs into Canada was found guilty by a jury on two of the four conspiracy...
View ArticleMontreal police obtain warrant to arrest alleged neo-Nazi
The Montreal police have obtained a warrant to arrest Gabriel Sohier Chaput, an alleged neo-Nazi who was the subject of a series of investigative articles published by the Montreal Gazette earlier this...
View ArticleHundreds already stopped by Montreal police impaired-driving spot checks
The Montreal police have been running daily spot checks for impaired driving since Oct. 17, the day recreational cannabis became legal in Canada, as part of an effort to inform people that they have,...
View ArticleTeenager found dead on Nuns' Island was homicide victim, autopsy reveals
An autopsy done on the body of a 17-year-old boy discovered on Nuns’ Island has confirmed the teenager was the victim of a homicide. Montreal police spokesperson Andrée-Anne Picard said the autopsy was...
View ArticleMontreal police find bullet holes, but no victims in Montreal North shooting
Montreal police officers responding to a call about shots fired in Montreal North on Tuesday discovered a car with bullets holes in it but no victims. Montreal police spokesperson Andrée-Anne Picard...
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Woman, 26, gets three years for fatal crash in Île-Bizard
Driving while impaired is like pointing a loaded gun at someone, a Quebec Court judge said Wednesday before handing a three-year jail term to a 26-year-old woman who struck and killed a father of two...
View ArticleHundreds pack Nuns' Island hall to support family of teen homicide victim
More than 800 people packed into a community centre on Nuns’ Island Wednesday night to offer their condolences and support the mother of a 17-year-old boy whose death by stabbing has left a community...
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