Montreal police seized 15 firearms and arrested 14 suspects last week in and around Montreal in five interventions involving patrol officers and specialized teams.
This was announced by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) in a press release on Monday. “The fight against gun violence in Montreal is not only the business of our teams specializing in firearms, but a collective effort by all of our police forces”, emphasized the inspector and spokesperson for the SPVM, David Shane.
The most recent intervention took place last Friday night in Old Montreal with the arrest of two men aged 27 and 28 who were in possession of two loaded pistols.
A few hours earlier, during the arrest of three suspects after a home robbery in the Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles borough, two firearms were found in the vehicle of the suspects who were elderly 16, 21 and 27 years old.
The day before, Thursday, the multisectoral team on firearms (EMAF) carried out seven searches in the boroughs of Lachine and Saint-Laurent, as well as in the municipality of Saint-Philippe, in Montérégie. Seven long guns, a pistol, ammunition, a homemade silencer and several pieces of firearms were notably seized. A 36-year-old suspect has been apprehended.
On the same day, during an operation against drug trafficking, police officers from the Organized Crime Section carried out three searches in the boroughs of Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie and Ville-Marie, as well as in Vaudreuil. -Dorion, in Montérégie. Officers seized a pistol, magazines, several ammunition and narcotics. Six suspects aged 24 to 41 were then arrested.
And on Sunday, November 14, two handguns, magazines and ammunition were seized during the arrest at their home of two individuals aged 17 and 18, in connection with shots fired the same day on the boulevard Gouin Ouest, in Ahuntsic-Cartierville.
With The Canadian Press